I resemble that remark

On the dangers of a truly liberal education: a section from Pier Paolo Vergerio's Character and Studies Befitting a Free-Born Youth (1402):

What is more, this excessive desire to know and learn is generally joined with a certain disorderly curiosity to investigate. For when people like this are eager to take up many things one by one, they fall upon the various disciplines all at once, going back now to this one, now to that; now they embrace one subject with all their strength, then, having cast that aside, they embrace another for a bit, then another. This is not only completely useless, but even very damaging, for there is truth in the proverb which says: wines turn sour when they are rebottled too often. So it is better to devote oneself to one thing and to pursue it with all one's zeal. . .

Never in my life have I proceeded methodically in a single subject--after four or five hours, I usually become quite bored with whatever I'm working on, and have to turn to something (often) completely different. Now, it is my fervent belief that such a happenstance anchorless junk-drawer of interests makes for a more interesting life, and yet I cannot help but conclude that I would have definitely completed my Ph.D. program by now had it not been for this admittedly self-indulgent "disorderly curiosity to investigate."

Upon reflection, it might be even worse than I had supposed, as it is not merely incidental that I investigate in a disorderly fashion, but a central aspect of what I am after: hidden and surprising parallels, alarming continuities, occult sympathies in seemingly disparate activities and endeavors. I'm not talking about anything that would be interesting enough to publish in a paper; rather, I suppose that I value (perhaps beyond their worth) the momentary insights that flash in the mind and then are mostly forgotten. Perhaps I desire to seek out the world in its fullness, but also desire to experience it as more of an organic entity than a mere scraphouse of fragmented images. And I enjoy the fact that I am the author of that experience.

Which reminds me: melancholic, you've been working in a single register on a single topic all week, and while this has meant that you've seen a lot of progress in your writing, you need to get out there into the world a bit more. And soon.