it's like when i learned Hebrew and qabbalistic tradition solely to solve the "puzzle" of Bath/LYBM, only to find that the answer was Y O U R B U T T S T I N K S.
y'know, a spade doesn't always have to be a thesis on 16th century ichthyological miscreants and how they survived in the wetlands of pre-colonized North America. sometimes it's just a spade.