“It is precisely in those moments when I don’t know what to do, boredom drives one to try …a host of possibilities… [to] either get somewhere or not get anywhere.”

—  Anish Kapoor

[Grant, Jennifer, MOMumental: Adventures in the Messy Art of Raising a Family, http://books.google.com/books?id=8Iu1QtZR_X8C&pg=PT184, 1 May 2012, Worthy Publishing, 978-1-61795-099-5, 184–]

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