But Mr. Ebert never intended that moment to last. Nothing does. Nothing should. “The Magnetic Zeros was really no fun once it was completed, because it’s dead,” he said. “Completions themselves are deaths.”

— Alex Ebert in Alex Williams, A Pop Star Becomes a Guru, The New York Times, 2022

Connected for me with something Kyle and Avvai’s have talked about,

She didn’t reach the top. She only made it to the first ledge, but as she stood there, triumphantly looking out over the ancient Teotihuacan ruins, she proudly declared the words that have become famous in our house:

“The Dream Is Dead”.
— Kyle and Avvai, The Dream Is Dead, Making It Meaningful, 2024