Thursday, June 23, 2005
David Foster Wallace's
commencement speech is a tad better than Al Gore's. Perhaps relatedly, an interesting discussion of boredom on the film-philosophy listserv.
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"Boredom is the desire for happiness left in its pure state."
-Giacomo Leopardi
"Something that would reduce or enhance the feeling of boredom." - "We're not bored." "We're not capable of it."
-Maurice Blanchot
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