Contrary to received wisdom, there is no escape from the dismal condition of boredom via further stimulation of desire.
-- Mark Kingwell in the introduction to The Idler's Glossary.
Later in the same paragraph he writes this:
Boredom is desire stalled, the "paradoxical wish for a desire" as Adam Phillips has phrased it; the stall is a signal that something has gone wrong with desire, perhaps something big that we need to confront but which under current conditions we cannot.
