“An excess of boringness does not make a thing interesting except in the driest academic sense. A place is not boring if you have to look really hard for something which is interesting. If there is absolutely nothing interesting about any particular place, then that is a perfectly interesting and quintessentially un-boring place.”

—  Iain Banks

“State of the Art” (p. 112)
Short fiction, The State of the Art (1991)

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