It's fascinating that "person dug a hole for some practical reason and found themself compelled to just keep digging" is enough of a recurring part of the human experience to hang a wikipedia article on...

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It's fascinating that "person dug a hole for some practical reason and found themself compelled to just keep digging" is enough of a recurring part of the human experience to hang a wikipedia article on...
Like if it happened once that'd be an interesting quirky story but the fact that there are multiple recorded instances that follow a similar "dug a cellar than just kept going" pattern makes it feel like somehow a fundamental if occasional facet in the grand variety of human experience