[See, at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what's going on around him. People could be threatening him. The holo thing could be showing images of him chasing a child down a mountain. There could be a dead body in the same room. It doesn't matter.
What does matter is trying to trace every indent in the future-room style across the entire facility. What matters is organizing the peas in his meal by size, hue of green, shape, and so on. What matters is tapping a nail against a wall for hours just to see if you can dig a in it. All sorts of petty little tasks. And he's happy to ask for help completing them! The Terrible Trivium knows better than anyone that its much better to do simple, easy things rather than difficult, hard things.]
The Terrible Trivium | The Phantom Tollbooth
[See, at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what's going on around him. People could be threatening him. The holo thing could be showing images of him chasing a child down a mountain. There could be a dead body in the same room. It doesn't matter.
What does matter is trying to trace every indent in the future-room style across the entire facility. What matters is organizing the peas in his meal by size, hue of green, shape, and so on. What matters is tapping a nail against a wall for hours just to see if you can dig a in it. All sorts of petty little tasks. And he's happy to ask for help completing them! The Terrible Trivium knows better than anyone that its much better to do simple, easy things rather than difficult, hard things.]