Dove il tempo è segnato da una noia necessaria.
Where time is marked by a necessary boredom.
Boredom is the threshold to great deeds.
— Walter Benjamin, quoted together with Ghirri
via: Vasco Brondi, Una cosa spirituale (Einaudi, 2025) — Una noia necessaria
Info & reflection: boredom as a threshold, not an absence: something to protect and claim.
Related in anthology
- Una cosa spirituale. Non fare niente, altre forme d'arte — In the chapter Una noia necessaria Brondi puts Ghirri and Benjamin side by side: boredom as a threshold, inside his praise of doing nothing