"Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours." -- James Baldwin

N+1 points to the insufficiency of things to satisfy the deepest longings of human desire...which are to be known and to be loved. Solomon, who had riches and wisdom beyond calculation, observed at the end of his life,

"Better what the eye sees than the roving of the appetite. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind."