Re: USAGE: Words for "boredom"

On Monday 17 June 2002 09:05, Roger Mills wrote:
> Ennui through the ages:
> 1. Simón Bolívar had a mistress; at one point, while he was off
> fighting battles, she was marooned in a very small town, and wrote
> to a friend, "For amusement, we conjugate the verb _s'ennuier_".
>
> 2. A lovely song, "Moi, je m'ennuie", sung by Marlene Dietrich on
> an old old LP of even older songs from her European movies
> (20s/30s)-- it has a wonderful little rinky-tink jazz break that
> sounds like something Kurt Weill might have written. (And IIRC
> there's "World-weary" on one of her Vegas albums. The perfect voice
> for such sentiments.)
3. And my favorite, from Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies:
"N is for Neville who died of ennui."

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