TITLE: I'd Like to Be Bored for a While
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: June 01, 2015  2:21 PM
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When asked if he has ever been bored, Italo Calvino responded:

<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
 Yes, in my childhood.  But it must be pointed out that
 childhood boredom is a special kind of boredom.  It is
 a boredom full of dreams, a sort of projection into
 another place, into another reality.  In adulthood
 boredom is made of repetition, it is the continuation
 of something from which we are no longer expecting any
 surprise.  And I -- would that I had time to get bored
 today!
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>

Children are better at boredom than adults are, because we let them
be.  We should let adults be good at boredom every ocacsionally.

(Passage from
<A HREF="http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2027/the-art-of-fiction-no-130-italo-calvino">
   this Paris Review interview</A>,
which I quoted a couple of times
<A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2015-04.html#e2015-04-27T14_33_47.htm">
   several weeks ago</A>.)
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