“Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.”

—  Jean Baudrillard

Source: 1980s, Cool Memories (1987, trans. 1990), Chapter 3

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French sociologist and philosopher 1929–2007

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