Quote of the Day | 0617
In France, boredom is given a philosophical tincture; in England, an aristocratic one: Lord Byron, having seen and done it all, is the perfect type of the bored English aristocrat. George Santayana, travelling on a student fellowship from Harvard, made the discovery that the Germans had no conception of boredom whatsoever, which explains their tolerance for the Ring cycle and the novels of Hermann Broch, and for so many other lengthy productions in German high culture.
Joseph Epstein, ‘Duh, Bor-ing’
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