Jan 22, 2022
“Childhood boredom is a special kind of boredom. It is a boredom full of dreams, a sort of projection into another place, into another reality. In adulthood boredom is made of repetition, it is the continuation of something from which we are no longer expecting any surprise.”
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Wisdom from Italo Calvino’s Paris Review Interview, completed shortly before his death. Complement with Kierkegaard on boredom, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on why the capacity for boredom is essential for a full life, and Susan Sontag on its creative purpose.
Couple with Calvino on digression as a hedge against death and his love-hate relationship with distraction and procrastination.
(via yogaile)
