and in the end , when the last pizza we had ordered was reduced to a pile of crumbs upon its pedestal of a tray , we signed a contract that stated that the triangles were to take up any semblance that they desired , and that they could maintain their history , but instead of wallowing in it and pining for past glories , they would be required to use that history to enlighten themselves , and to prevent the follies of their previous existence from ever happening again .