"Not until I learn enough to know how to stop this thing, they are not."
He might feel pleased in the moment, while learning. It was an occupation that he rarely got fed up with, unless there was something bigger and more important happening. But, even then, it was always a means to an end, and, after a year and a half - and more - Damian's goal was not achieved. That did not work well for his estimation of his achievement. Of his success. Hence, one of the bigger activities he'd been employing to that end - learning - plainly could not be satisfactory.
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"Not until I learn enough to know how to stop this thing, they are not."
He might feel pleased in the moment, while learning. It was an occupation that he rarely got fed up with, unless there was something bigger and more important happening. But, even then, it was always a means to an end, and, after a year and a half - and more - Damian's goal was not achieved. That did not work well for his estimation of his achievement. Of his success. Hence, one of the bigger activities he'd been employing to that end - learning - plainly could not be satisfactory.