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Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.

Saul Bellow

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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
Author
Essayist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Solomon Bellows
Terror
Seasoned
Instruments
Tedium
Deep
Combine
Control
Impose
Social
Anguish
Death
Boredom
Power
Instrument
Real
Command
Stasis

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