Algo que meramente continúa, dixit Hernán Díaz

[Håkan] was just something that kept going. Not because it wanted to, but because that was the way it had been built. To keep going with the bare minimum was the line of least resistance. It was natural and therefore involuntary. Anything else would have required a decision.

The business of being took up all his time.

In the Distance, Hernán Díaz