“Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.”

— Saul Bellow , book Humboldt's Gift

Source: Humboldt's Gift

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Canadian-born American writer 1915–2005

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