Word: boredome
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...Egypt's tiny army, a bare-bones auxiliary to Britain's Middle East garrison, had little to offer its peacetime subalterns except barracks-room blues and $1.65 a day. Promotions came slowly for those who, like Naguib, refused to kowtow to palace lackeys. So Naguib assuaged his boredom by taking courses in law and political economy. He also taught himself to speak German, French and Italian as well as fluent English. (He is currently learning Hebrew...
Arthur was cocky at first; later, chafing under asylum boredom, he became desperate. When he was released for a while, two years later, he was a broken man, and the rest of his life was to be a shuttle in & out of mental wards. When Arthur was free, he cadged and thieved, betrayed his accomplices, married a trusting farm girl without telling her about his past. When he was put away, he kept trying to escape; but in an honest moment he had to admit that he felt at home in the asylum. "The walls seemed as familiar...
...last month, the details were complete enough to fill an 800-page indictment in the criminal court at Versailles. It told a tragic story of boredom and bankruptcy, of bonds lying loose in a treasury vault at Arras, and of a hero who had found neither peace nor prosperity in victory. His substance wasted in extravagant living and rash business deals, De Récy's lust for adventure had led him into a conspiracy with four accomplices to steal the bonds. Soon afterward, the thieves had had a falling out. One of them was picked up trying...
...chief. From autumn 1839 to spring 1842 Stendhal sketched the outline of her progress from rags to riches. He described her adoption by a childless couple, her entry as a servant-companion into the household of a duchess, her initiation into the facts of upper-class life, i.e., mingled boredom, bitchery, fear and arrogance. He did portraits of varying completeness of the men in her life, ranging from a Machiavellian, hunchbacked doctor to a simple Norman peasant whom Lamiel pays 15 francs to teach her the nature of love ("Isn't there anything else?" she cries disappointedly when...
...appalled when he was handed his weapon, an 1896 German Mauser with a corroded barrel. Assigned to a section on the Aragon front, his ragged company of 100 went into the trenches with twelve overcoats among them. Before long, Orwell had learned the basic fact of infantry life: boredom. Wrote he: "A life as uneventful as a city clerk's and almost as regular. Sentry-go, patrols, digging; digging, patrols, sentry-go. On every hilltop, Fascist or Loyalist, a knot of ragged, dirty men shivering round their flag and trying to keep warm. And all day and night...