Hal vs. Stice from the bleachers
We see this in experience. One sees this in all obsessive goal-based cultures of pursuit. Look at the Japonois, the suicide rates of their later years. […] One, one is that you attain the goal and realize the shocking realization that attaining the goal does not complete or redeem you, does not make everything for your life “OK ” as you are, in the culture, educated to assume it will do this, the goal. And then you face this fact that what you had thought would have the meaning does not have the meaning when you get it, and you are impaled by shock. We see suicides in history by people at these pinnacles; the children here are versed in what is called the saga of Eric Clipperton.
Context
Poutrincourt to "Helen Steeply" in the cold bleachers, expounding Schtitt's philosophy of Enfield: the étoile who attains the goal and can't transcend it is doomed — impaled by the shock that the goal "does not have the meaning when you get it." Clipperton generalized into a law of all obsessive goal-based cultures: despair not as failure's product but as success's. (The space inside "OK " is as transcribed.)