Sunday, February 19, 2012

ENNUI., n., a feeling weariness and dissatisfaction.
"Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty, land is seldom seen"
-- Luke Rhinehart
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"Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair."
-- Buddha
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"Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring."
-- Edward Gorey
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"I once inscribed the word 'ennui' backwards on my forehead, and I was so bored that I stared at it in the mirror for hours. And at the end of that time, I felt like Sheryl Crow and I looked like Aleister Crowley."
-- Jarod Kintz
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"Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism."
-- Chuck Palahniuk
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ENNUI
Tea leaves thwart those who court catastrophe, designing futures where nothing will occur: cross the gypsy’s palm and yawning she will still predict no perils left to conquer. Jeopardy is jejune now: naïve knight finds ogres out-of-date and dragons unheard of, while blasé princesses indict tilts at terror as downright absurd. The beast in Jamesian grove will never jump, compelling hero’s dull career to crisis; and when insouciant angels play God’s trump, while bored arena crowds for once look eager, hoping toward havoc, neither pleas nor prizes shall coax from doom’s blank door lady or tiger.”
-- Sylvia Plath

7 comments:

wellyousaythat said...

"ennui,ennui they've all got it; ennui"

Weaverman said...

Oh, I get it....you're bored. Having just returned from a revitalising pilgrimage to Walsingham and feeling the planets moving into interesting positions again such negativity is alien to me at the moment.....of course the new stereo has a lot to do with it as well. I understand your pain but don;t share it.

Cerpts said...

Oh no no, you misunderstand me. I'm very positive!

Positive I'm bored.

Cerpts said...

Actually, I should qualify my statements in that I only have ennui about frivolous stuff that isn't important. The important stuff I'm interested in: the All-Star Companion, bossa nova, Trader Joe Veggie Burgers, the Ella Fitzgerald Cole Porter Songbook, mussels with linguini, Space: 1999 and the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Other than that, don' bothuh me!!!

ernest said...

YIKES!

Cerpts said...

Oh yeah....and also the 1966 Marvel Superhero cartoons of Thor as well. They make me smile.

Cerpts said...

And zombies are fun. Don't forget zombies!