The Internet Personified: Picture yourself in a boat on a river
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Today's newsletter title: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds by the Beatles. Have you ever considered how much easier it is for us to escape boredom these days? I don't mean just the obvious things--television and outings and what not, I mean, that if something or someONE bores us, we feel well within our rights to say, "Omg, you're boring me, please stop" if it's someone you know well, or move away after five minutes of conversation if it's someone you don't. In Austen's time--and I'm picking Austen, because no one wrote socialising in drawing rooms better than she did---you HAD to listen to that boring old uncle (Emma's father going on about his diet, for example) because you lived in the country, and your choices for meeting people were limited, and so you made do with what you had, and hoped Boring Old Uncle had some rich hot son or nephew to take you away from the minutiae of drawing rooms.
The Internet Personified: Picture yourself in a boat on a river
The Internet Personified: Picture yourself in…
The Internet Personified: Picture yourself in a boat on a river
Today's newsletter title: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds by the Beatles. Have you ever considered how much easier it is for us to escape boredom these days? I don't mean just the obvious things--television and outings and what not, I mean, that if something or someONE bores us, we feel well within our rights to say, "Omg, you're boring me, please stop" if it's someone you know well, or move away after five minutes of conversation if it's someone you don't. In Austen's time--and I'm picking Austen, because no one wrote socialising in drawing rooms better than she did---you HAD to listen to that boring old uncle (Emma's father going on about his diet, for example) because you lived in the country, and your choices for meeting people were limited, and so you made do with what you had, and hoped Boring Old Uncle had some rich hot son or nephew to take you away from the minutiae of drawing rooms.