And that fits neatly with my own perception of the situation: I am not all that interested in mountain climbing. It seems to me to be exalting the difficult over the interesting. All sorts of things are difficult that I don't find interesting at all. It would probably be difficult to make the world's largest ball of twine at this point -- probably more difficult than reading a short story -- but I'm more interested in the short story. I mean, unless it's a bad, boring short story, in which case, toss-up.