If sleep represents the high point of bodily relaxation, deep boredom is the peak of mental relaxation. A purely hectic rush produces nothing new. It reproduces and accelerates what is already available.
via: Vasco Brondi, Una cosa spirituale (Einaudi, 2025) — Una noia necessaria
Info & reflection: deep boredom as the condition for creating, not its absence.
Related in anthology
- Una cosa spirituale. Non fare niente, altre forme d'arte — Han in the chapter Una noia necessaria: deep boredom as spiritual rest, the doing nothing that the book's title claims