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  • Boredom
      • Justine (no login)
      Posted Mar 6, 2007 9:40 PM

      Another prevalent theme in Amis’ short story was boredom. I really enjoyed his re-enactment of the questions asked at the airport. Especially the irony of Atta giving a suspicious answer, that is merely laughed at as a joke.

      But I also saw this theme of boredom in the documentary “9/11.” If you recall, the new fireman was constantly at the house, bored, just “waiting for a fire.”

      Also – Zizek claims that our true “catastrophe” is living our mundane lives under the permanent threat of catastrophe. That, somehow, with all the terrible things that have happened to us, we can still be bored with the world.

      Just something to think/talk about.
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