To remain a prisoner of the illusion

"To claim gloomily that existence is bereft of meaning is to remain a prisoner of the illusion that it might have meaning. But what if life is just not the kind of thing which can be spoken of in either of these terms? If meaning is something people do, how can we expect the world to be meaningful or meaningless in itself ? And why then should we bewail the fact that it does not present itself to us as bursting with significance?"