An excerpt from a novel by Kierkegaard, Either/Or
People of experience maintain that it is very sensible to start from a principle. I grant them that and start with the principle that all men are boring. Or will someone be boring enough to contradict me in this? ...
We can trace this from the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. From that time boredom entered the world and grew in exact proportion to the growth of population. Adam was bored alone, then Adam and Eve were bored in union, then Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were bored en famille, then the population increased and the peoples were bored en masse. To divert themselves they conceived the idea of building a tower so high it reached the sky. The very idea is as boring as the tower was high, and a terrible proof of how boredom had gained the upper hand. Then the nations were scattered over the eath, just as people now travel abroad, but they continued to be bored. ...They think of calling a constitutional assembly. Can anything more boring be imagined, as much for the gentlemen taking part as for those who have to read and hear about them!
He goes on, but I thought I'd cut off there. Actually, this little selection on boredom is... *checks* six pages long, with his solution to the problem being another eight. I love this man, I really, really do. *hearts*
My professor for this course is named Anthony Rudd, and he's British. He's got a generally-southern-England accent, and every time he talks, I swoon a little. (Although he does pronounce his th's as f's. This is easily ignorable, except when it comes to Looferans. The Danish Church of Bath Sponge?) His wife is my advisor, and they're both splendid people.
We can trace this from the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. From that time boredom entered the world and grew in exact proportion to the growth of population. Adam was bored alone, then Adam and Eve were bored in union, then Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were bored en famille, then the population increased and the peoples were bored en masse. To divert themselves they conceived the idea of building a tower so high it reached the sky. The very idea is as boring as the tower was high, and a terrible proof of how boredom had gained the upper hand. Then the nations were scattered over the eath, just as people now travel abroad, but they continued to be bored. ...They think of calling a constitutional assembly. Can anything more boring be imagined, as much for the gentlemen taking part as for those who have to read and hear about them!
He goes on, but I thought I'd cut off there. Actually, this little selection on boredom is... *checks* six pages long, with his solution to the problem being another eight. I love this man, I really, really do. *hearts*
My professor for this course is named Anthony Rudd, and he's British. He's got a generally-southern-England accent, and every time he talks, I swoon a little. (Although he does pronounce his th's as f's. This is easily ignorable, except when it comes to Looferans. The Danish Church of Bath Sponge?) His wife is my advisor, and they're both splendid people.