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Ted Van Alst's avatar

"monumental indigenous boredom" is an almost universal view.

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Martin Billheimer's avatar

Another strategy of survival, maybe the most powerful. The wasichu is tedious, even when he is terrorizing. All that violence only produces a terrific snooze.

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Ted Van Alst's avatar

the dullness of inevitable brutishness, the tedium of willful stupidity

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