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#new Boredom, a lively history by Peter Toohey - The 1st book to argue for the benefits of boredom

In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a childish emotion or an existential malaise like Jean-Paul Sartre's nausea. He shows how boredom is, in fact, one of our most common and constructive emotions and is an essential part of the human experience.

This informative and entertaining investigation of boredom—what it is and what it isn't, its uses and its dangers—spans more than 3,000 years of history and takes readers through fascinating neurological and psychological theories of emotion, as well as recent scientific investigations, to illustrate its role in our lives. There are Australian aboriginals and bored Romans, Jeffrey Archer and caged cockatoos, Camus and the early Christians, Dürer and Degas. Toohey also explores the important role that boredom plays in popular and highbrow culture and how over the centuries it has proven to be a stimulus for art and literature.

Toohey shows that boredom is a universal emotion experienced by humans throughout history and he explains its place, and value, in today's world. Boredom: A Lively History is vital reading for anyone interested in what goes on when supposedly nothing happens.

  Guardian Book Review

  Peter Toohey is a professor in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Calgary. His previous books include Melancholy, Love and Time: Boundaries of the Self in Ancient Literature. He lives in Calgary, Canada.

  Peter Toohey - Boredom, a lively history

€ 28.00 | hardcover | 208 pages

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Wall, I wonder that you haven’t fallen down in ruin, when you have to support all the boredom of your inscribers.

2,000 year old Roman graffiti, quoted by Peter Toohey in "The Thrill of Boredom" (He wrote Boredom: A Lively History)

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Boredom... And Marriage!

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So i bothered to talk to mom .. for good reason xD about marriage, we were watching the kardashians on tv, and kourtney wasn't sure about marriage.

Divorce is a BIG thing. I've seen it, many of my friends have seen it...

Remarriage is a wonderful gift, and even Kris Jenner/Kardashian was given this chance. Even if it's TV it's one of the few seriously honest families on the boob tube. 

As crazy and weird as they all are - they ARE a family.

Kris's values were explained to me in the sense of what my mom believes. Marriage is a sacrament  in the christian religious sense. Legality of it isn't the issue; it's the sacrament of commitment and the spirit of what it brings.

Many people don't exactly believe in this. That's totally A-OK with me, and the thing is marriage doesnt have to be exactly man or a woman to me. It can be man/man woman/woman or transgender or anything of the alternative or undescribed nature. 

As long as the idea of commitment and beleiving in each other, and the sense of the sharing of the rest of your lives is involved. Now maybe my ideas are different than my mom's considering i'm 28, still a virgin and hoping to god i can at least solidify my love life before 30 lol.  But not by much; i don't beleive in holding your regrets too high over your parents heads. My stepdad, like Bruce Jenner - is FAR FROM PERFECT. Except probably that Bruce Jenner wouldn't keel under pressure of my random anger LOL. (Like today, _~_~_ i whacked my stepdad with a pizza box cause he was annoying me... i dont know what's up with me today, but that's another post entirley!! XD)..

Men and Women, anyone that's human.. we aren't perfect.

So i guess my advice to people? Take it slow, review how your life is - and if you want what the other person wants, go farther.  But if you aren't ready for the long term, then seriously don't linger, don't cause an issue and ruin the rest of your friendship by leading someone on. People make mistakes, we learn from them.

I still have no clue what i'd like at my wedding, as i haven't even had a solid real life love relationship. I'm getting there, and when i get to share it with the person i'm hoping to (As in move it off the damn computer and into real life! XD) and it goes past just bf/gf ... and if we did get to long term, then i'll plan it.

Rob, xD if your family ever freaking expects tradition??? XDDD I TOLD YOU LAST NIGHT MY FAMILY IS POOOOOR :P 

....lol.

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The Uses of Tedium

'When you are bored, you might discover an “out of the box” solution to a problem. Or boredom might produce disgust, which might help you evade The Bore at a party.'

http://www.tnr.com/book/review/boredom-lively-history-peter-toohey

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René Magritte (1940) Le Mal du Pays (Homesickness), Private Collection - Brussels