"What was the purpose of this whole thing?" Trump asked at the time.
Now, the whole purpose of this overnight/weekend thing is "could I survive?", only with Zen, a cool view, a steak, some snow shoeing or boarding, and a bottle of wine thrown in ~ so build the fire however you like.
Then send out some invites, get everyone to crouch in the dark beneath a banner spelling out the purpose of the thing in Comic Sans, and... SURPRISE!
The wise Cicero observes, "Men may construe things after their fashion, / Clean from the purpose of the things themselves" (Act I, scene 3, lines 34 35).
Observing how life on the planet has never worked as well as it might, she concludes – at least for the purpose of this story – that the whole thing was, in fact, created by a spoiled and self-pitying 19-year-old named Bob, appointed against his will and losing interest after the first week.
And yet this very absence of feeling is, we feel, a troubling thing because the whole purpose of this terrible room was to raise human emotions to a fever pitch of uncontrollable despair.
This idea, often expressed as the idea that "the microcosm mirrors the macrocosm"—a common Platonic, Pythagorean, and Neoplatonic trope has a strongly prescriptive overtone: it's not simply that lesser things mirror greater things, but that in this mirroring, we find the purpose of the lesser things, viz. to be just like the greater things.
"The purpose of the whole thing was to get Doug to think theatrically about the material," Mr. Kaufman said.
