"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
Five weeks old straight from New Orleans, these little love-hate creatures. Brought home as gift (some people seeming always to have animals to give, particularly to us) not long after we found this amusing, even after about the dozenth time: