“Human Beings are addicted to meaning. We all have a great problem: our lives must have some sort of content. We cannot bear to live our lives without some sort of content that we can see as constituting a meaning. Meaninglessness is boring. And boredom can be described metaphorically as a meaning withdrawal. Boredom can be understood as a discomfort which communicates that the need for meaning is not being satisfied. In order to remove this discomfort, we attack the symptoms rather than the disease itself, and search for all sorts of meaning-surrogates.”

A Philosphy of Boredom- Lars Svendson

“Modernism ran its course, emptying out narrative. Novels became all voice anchored in neither plot nor circumstance, driving the storytelling impulse underground. The sound of voice grew alone less compelling; the longing for narration rose up again, asserting the oldest claim on the reading heart: the tale. What could be more literal than The Story of My Life now being told by Everywoman and Everyman?”

— David Sheilds, Reality Hunger