1. Not the least power of a totalitarian state is the power to bore the people out of their right minds. 2. Erm I bore people, I might be at a dinner, I say look, what about irony and sarcasm? 3. Any topic requiring more complex imagery than that would just bore people to death, anyway, and is probably best kept to yourself. 4. Boring people is the best way to regain normal life. 5. Bore people at cocktail parties? 6. But most people were bored by studying Gaelic, which they considered useless commercially and which they associated with rustic poverty. 7. Experimental fiction bored him, as it bores most people. 8. He bores people to death. 9. I promise that I will not bore people at parties by talking to them about my aura. 10. I used to be a jackleg house painter in college, and there are about a half-dozen homes in town I bore people by telling I once painted. |