The venue was the exam hall of Trinity College, founded by Bishop Berkeley 300 odd years previously... the man who spent his entire existence trying to prove the existence of existence.
Try the existence of our old chums fairness and balance in reporting Jeremy Corbyn, for instance.
Instead, we are bound to live a tragic existence, trying to make sense of a world in which I am forced to write you six letters in a row, and receive no response.
But posterity must and will take care of itself... when I am at work I feel really aware of the present, of being alive here and now, of trying to apprehend existence, in however inadequate a fashion".
"It was a person with a troubled existence trying to reach out and communicate and have a relationship," he said.
"It's pretty much the bane of our existence, trying to find new acts," said Simon Hammerstein, an owner of the club.
In a sense he spent his restless, lonely existence trying to recreate the family he had lost as a child, looking for the perfect home, the perfect love, or any love at all.
In the interim, we'll likely see many retailers continue to struggle with an "omni channel" existence, trying to determine the perfect balance of physical presence and digital touch.
We spent so many years of our existence trying to avoid this very title.
In trying to view existence, it is almost as if looking at an object flying through the air; we may not see the other directions in which it may travel.
