I learned about eternal recurrence, that big wheel of life that repeats itself again and again and again. I recently edited this concept to suggest that life is a giant fuzzy hoop that is constantly vibrating. It was within minutes of meeting Elise’s friend Samer that I came to this realization; he, rather, saw life as a ski slope with a tiny pendulum at the tip. True or false: Nietzsche infected himself with syphilis to attain supreme enlightenment and collapsed on a street corner hugging a horse in its final stages. True; the fact and the book I best remember from the liberal arts seminar.