“Culture, Alienation, Boredom and Despair.”
Richey James Edwards (1967–2008) Welsh musician
Coda to Little Baby Nothing.
“My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.”
— Anthony Swofford, book Jarhead
Source: Jarhead
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