The word of the day1 for February 9, 2007 is “ennui”— noun : a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction : BOREDOM.
A gray sort of day—happy not to live in Oswego, NY. My friends in the Denver area still have the residue from January’s storms—and they are not happy about it in the least. We’re fighting Cabin Fever; Lloyd has spent the past three weekends in the house because of the weather. Fortunately for him we need to go up to KC this weekend. He’ll be able to deal with his white-line-fever then.
He was saying yesterday that he’d like to take a trip somewhere warm. Unfortunately, no where within a day’s drive is particularly warm. Also, all the trips we need/want to take are to the north. I keep showing him the railroading DVD showing the LA to San Diego Surfliner. At least it’s warm in the video.
The quote2 for today is Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), “The Wanderer and His Shadow”, aph. 200, Human, All-Too-Human.(1880)
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom—such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it—those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.
;^) Jan
1 The definition is from either Merriam-Webster Online, 10th Edition or The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition and is used by permission.
2 The quote is from either Bartleby: Great Books on Line or The Quotation Pages and is used by permission.
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