Wednesday, August 5, 2009   Anonymous said...   July 21, 2009
4:51 PM  Terre said...   March 2, 2008     1. two very different
points of view on the same subject...interesting.      "only
boring people get bored."     -kate coffee    2. And for Erik
Satie, 'Boredom was mysterious and profound' and an effective
way of mystifying and irritating the bourgeoisie, as Satie
suggests in Sports et Divertissements [1914], which opens with a
Chorale into which "I have put all I know about Boredom. I
dedicate it to those who don't like me.'    3. To add (from
Walter Benjamin):      'The dream bird of boredom hatches the
egg of experience.'    4. "Your true traveller finds boredom
agreeable rather than painful. It is the symbol of his
liberty—his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it
comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure."
So there you have Huxley's take. Boredom = the profoundest
decadence. I agree.    5. No. this is the wrong mentality. There
is room between Lady Gaga and "Upekah