ABSTRACT
I was aware that the boredom was lessened from time to time, or the mixture of guilt and boredom changed to become more interesting. A religious would have said. The Devil entered into us', or, at an earlier stage, 'Satan found work for idle hands to do' if—as the implication was—we did not find something to do ourselves. It was clear that the 'something' should not be interesting. But it is difficult, when you are bored, to set out to find something 'different' but equally boring.
