Even for the remaining hyperactive strivers who came out the winners in Darwin's economy, it's becoming a fleeting goal: Quit the job, slow down the engine, follow your passion.
And in his investigation of the cello's possibilities, he leaves no stone unturned: nearly 9 minutes into the 10-minute piece, a lugubrious melody crawls into view, and although it quickly disintegrates into pizzicato fragments and descending slides, it almost seems to be the fleeting goal the score has been building toward.
There were moments, of course — such is the quality of player Messi has around him that there will always be moments — but they were fleeting: the goal itself, the product of two minutes of possession, with every visiting player touching the ball; chances in the first half for Coutinho and in the second, after another spell of endless possession, of what seemed a thousand passes, for Suárez.
Perhaps this is in part a reaction to official efforts to commandeer the nation's history for fleeting political goals.Bangladesh's birth the secession of the eastern part of Pakistan from the western bit was painful and bloody.
There had been balance to their opening period, even if glimpses of goal were fleeting.
Rangers spent more of that time in Celtic's half of the field, but skirmishing in the vicinity of Artur Boruc in the visitors' goal was fleeting and largely unthreatening.
For the crowd, and the thousands of islanders watching them at home, that one goal, that one fleeting moment of equality, was vindication enough.
When Brendan Canty and Christoph Green, Washington filmmakers, traveled to Chicago last September to videotape bands playing in a doomed house, they had an unusual goal: to capture fleeting live performances in a similarly short-lived setting.
But, despite plenty of neat approach play, they only had fleeting sights of the Madrid goal.
When I spoke to thesis-year students or recent graduates who had taken topics in toxicology or analytical chemistry, they evoked this work as a fleeting opportunity to formulate and pursue goals that were at once civic and scientific.
It's a useful reminder now that so many young artists are content with trivial effects and fleeting fame, which were neither Hesse's goal nor situation.
