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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.
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A little context
You gave it a real hour: the album everyone calls a masterpiece, front to back, phone face down. Nothing happened. You weren't moved, or even annoyed; you were just somewhere else. Now you have to decide what that nothing means.
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