it is melancholy to think that such wonderful perseverance should have been wasted in so vain a pursuit, and that energies so unconquerable should have had no worthier field to strive in.
-- charles mackay in "extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds" on the alchemist bernard of treves
(could just have well been someone talking about me and minesweeper :-) )
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