Word: boredome
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...months in Viet Nam, Jaramillo has known fear, boredom and disillusionment. His biggest worry: "Getting killed. I just couldn't see myself getting killed. Some nights I don't worry, 'cause you know nothing is going to happen. Some nights I don't even feel safe in the bunker. I've seen guys at night just crying. Let the guy cry. It's helping him. I cried. Two good buddies of mine got hit, but it's over with and you can't keep thinking about it." He does think about...
Jonathan Strong is not so sure. Loneliness and self and boredom yes. But maybe no banquet over there where the titans and the adults live. His narrators do encounter a few older people who give them some cause for hope. There is Supperberger, a composer whose music has affected the story's young narrator. If Supperberger has succeeded, then maybe it is possible that art is a salvation...
...that surprised me. I have met a lot of people on the street and never known them to ask something as personal as that right away, I was glad he asked it, so I decided to tell him the truth, which I usually avoid on the subject of boredom and loneliness and I said yes. From then on I felt I was friends with Supperberger...
...only certain thing is that--whether we go to Mars or not--the choice has been made. You can see it in our literature; you can see it reflected in the increasing use of drugs; you can see it in self-conscious (and, perhaps, selfish) catharsis for guilt and boredom like the occupation of University Hall. We have chosen like the streets of our own minds over the highways to the stars...
After a four-year stint in the Air Force (where he learned to play the guitar to combat boredom), he headed for Memphis, where he met two auto mechanics who were also pretty good musicians. With Luther Perkins and Marshall Grant, he formed a trio-"Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two"-and began the round of playing free-for-alls at church socials, schools, county fairs and charity bazaars. "Finally somebody got the bright idea of auditioning," Cash recalls. The trio trooped off to Sun Records in Nashville and sang a little ditty of Johnny's called...