Tag: Boredom
The greatest of all sins is boredom. Here I explore its tedious nature and the vital necessity of escaping it with wit and style.
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Day 4: The Vexation of Virtue
There is a modern ailment, and a most dreadful one it is, that one finds particularly odious: the overwhelming desire to be ‘good’. Everyone, it seems, wishes to be a moral paragon, a beacon of virtue, and a tiresome example to the rest of humanity. They parade their tedious kindnesses and their even more tedious…
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Day 3: The Tedium of Experience
It is a lamentable contemporary superstition that one must ‘live’ in order to write, or to create, or even to speak with any authority. We are besieged by the memoirs of those who have done little but suffer, and the art of those who insist on boring us with the banal details of their existence.…