God created him, so God knows why

If my calculations are correct, it takes approximately 925 hours of perfect-minded life to understand Michael Silverstein's "Indexical Order and the Dialectics of Sociolinguistic Life," a 37-page document. That's roughly 38.5 days of life, including only high-concentration and excluding all other activities. So it'd take a lot longer to actually get through it if you allowed a total of 9 hours for the basics, e.g. sleep and food/water time. I would totally calculate it but I now see that I'm inadvertently avoiding Silverstein and should probably stop posting instead.