It's a metaphor for something, but I don't know what (IV)

Is there a word to describe the potentially infinite cycle of cheese and cracker eating.

You take a bite that finishes the cheese, but are left with a bit of cracker. So you cut off some more cheese, but it is too big for your cracker. So you take another cracker for your stub of cheese, but ...

It seems to capture some essential truth about the human condition, but I don't know what.

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[rivergirlie]

more than a metaphor, i reckon it's an archetype. it's scheherazade eating - delaying the inevitable. if you ever get the cracker and the cheese to match exactly, you'll fall down dead.