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24/05/2009
IN PRAISE OF BOREDOM
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(Joseph Brodsky, On Grief and Reason Essays, pp.
104-113)
Joseph Brodsky
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the light of day pouring through your window. Youll put on your
loafers only to discover theyre lacking bootstraps to lift
yourself out of what you recognize. Depending on your
temperament or the age you are at, you will either panic or
resign yourself to the familiarity of the sensation; or else youll
go through the rigmarole of change once more.
Neurosis and depression will enter your lexicon ; pills, your
medical cabinet . Basically, there is nothing wrong about turning
life into the constant quest for alternatives, into leap-frogging
jobs, spouses, sorroundings, etc., provided you can aord the
alimony and jumbled memories. This predicament, after all, has
been suciently glamorized on screen and in Romantic poetry.
The rub, however, is that before long this quest turns into a
full-time occupation, with your need for an alternative coming
to match a drug addicts daily fix.
There is yet another way out of it, however. Not a better one,
perhaps, from your point of view, and not necessarily secure, but
straight and inexpensive. Those of you who have read Robert
Frosts Servant to Servants may remember a line of hos: The
best way out is always through. So what I am about to suggest is
a variation on the theme.
When hit by boredom, go for it. Let yourself be crushed by it;
submerge, hit bottom. In general, with things unpleasant, the
rule is, the sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface. The
idea here, to paraphrase another great poet of the English
language, is to exact full look at the worst. The reason boredom
deserves such scrutiny is that it represents pure, undiluted time
in all its repetitive, redundant, monotonous splendor.
In a manner of speaking, boredom is your window on time, on
those properties of it one tends to ignore to the likely peril of
ones mental equilibrium. In short, it is your window on times
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