I had been struggling for two months to prove a result I was pretty sure was true. When I was walking up a Swiss mountain, fully occupied by the effort, a very odd device emerged - so odd that, though it worked, I could not grasp the resulting proof as a whole. But not only so; I had a sense that '''my subconscious was saying, 'Are you never going to do it, confound you; try this.''''

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I had been struggling for two months to prove a result I was pretty sure was true. When I was walking up a Swiss mountain, fully occupied by the effort, a very odd device emerged - so odd that, though it worked, I could not grasp the resulting proof as a whole. But not only so; I had a sense that '''my subconscious was saying, 'Are you never going to do it, confound you; try this.''''" in the context of "p. 192" to mean that wisdom is timeless.