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boredom is a bottle
 

Boredom is a bottle of mineral water with the tiniest hole in the bottom, losing a drop a minute. It’s a matter of waiting until it empties or smashing it and enduring the hellish racket.

ex Alejandra Pizarnik, Diarios: June 1955
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This is a fine project. On Pizarnik, see the translator’s essay The Lonely Ones (on Susan Sontag, Vivian Gornick and Pizarnik), at The New Inquiry (May 17, 2012, here).
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20 October 2012
tags: Alejandra Pizarnik; boredom