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...Boredom. The McGill experiment tries to measure the malfunctioning. The students generally sleep during their first few hours on the soft bed. Awake, they grow more and more restless. They squirm, whistle, sing, talk to themselves. They welcome any interruption, as when they are asked over an intercom to do mental arithmetic...
...superior practitioner of Globemanship, an audacious ploy, one best used by stay-at-homes of an intellectual appearance, is to abandon all pretense about having been to Europe and, indeed, to disclaim all knowledge of and interest in The Continent. The professional Inpatriate will wear a look of complete boredom while Europe is the topic, being careful, of course, not to let his expression be accurately interpreted as one of ignorance. Since, however, even people who have been to Europe are usually bored when others talks about it, the Inpatriate should occasionally interject a question such as, "Has England...
...mature adult, finding himself in a situation and environment totally different from . . . normal life, becomes uncomfortable and therefore insecure. His personality changes, and he becomes a child, emotionally . . . [This] shows up in the patient's constant complaints about food, bills, routine, boredom, personnel-that is in the general patient irritability...
...function of art to relieve those without faith from their boredom...
...only he has ever seen, so World War I becomes in A Fable a restless residue of the Faulknerian imagination. A volunteer in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1918, Faulkner did not get beyond flight training. In A Fable, however, he writes about air combat, the danger and boredom of infantry fighting, the deepest contemplations of generals, with a confidence that suggests he has experienced all of them simultaneously...