Glad to see this: I realise that the dead point is not a dead-end - earlier this morning I read a story that illustrates how we need to HANG IN THERE.
His ideas faced serious criticism. People did not believe in the physical reality of molecules nor Boltzmann’s treatment of them. He suffered from an alternation of depressed moods. Attacks on his work continued ... Eventually, going through severe depression, on September 5, 1906, Boltzmann hanged himself ... Just a few weeks after he committed suicide, his work was experimentally verified! Boltzmann’s tombstone bears the inscription of his famous Boltzmann’s entropy formula as a tribute to the genius. https://www.secretsofuniverse.in/boltzmann-suicide/

And this seems as good a place as any to post the little winged being attached by the thinnest of spider webs to my clothesline.

Sorry, no, I didn't get to rescue it. This creature was drained of all life, yet still clinging by that invisible thread.