Reply #3: I would have guessed at least a year, but twenty makes sense. [View All]

[kentauros]

He learned how to do rather beautiful ice-sculptures, how to not only play the piano but honky-tonk jazz at that ;)

He learned enough French to read and understand French poetry (Renaissance period, was it?)

Basically, he relived his life to one that turned him into a much better man. At some point in the period of him being trapped there, he had to realize that was the point of it all. I think it was when he learned that the homeless man had died and that some people do just stop living like that, no matter how much you try to help.

The thing is, after a few weeks or months of that, you likely would lose track of just how many days it was and learn to live with it. No amount of ignoring it, sleeping through it all or whatever other method of shirking responibility for your life would stop it, either. So, you learn to take advantage of it as Phil did :D