Of course the serious demon is the spectre of not being taken at all seriously. It's like being a boxer and taking your best shot, a knockout blow, at an opponent. And you look up and you have a broken hand and the son of a bitch is still standing there laughing at you.

Or you get up one morning and look at the piece that you spent the entire previous night working on. And you just are like, oh my freaking god–what a piece of shit...

Yeah, it's like that.