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An open question
Aesthetics
What is your boredom worth?
You spend an hour with a difficult book, a painting, an album, and get nothing. Nothing opens. What is the honest verdict?
Your response is real. Whether it is a fair measure of the work is less certain.
The live positions
Starting shores, not a quiz — the question stays open.
- 1There was nothing in it. An hour is a fair trial and I trust my response.
- 2I wasn't equal to it yet — the failure is mine and the thing is still owed a return.
- 3The question is undecidable from inside, and I should stop pretending my boredom is evidence.
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