With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection. - Jean-Paul Sartre

In irony a man annihilates what he posits within one and the same act; he leads us to believe in order not to be believed; he affirms to deny and denies to affirm; he creatives a positive object but it has no being other than its nothingness.

I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!

Roquentin wonders if he could do the same as the man who wrote the tune. Not in music, but in the realm of art. Not a history book, because that is about what has existed, and existence is pointless, is not necessary.