ABSTRACT
The phenomenological enterprise is that of a description of author experience in its lively sense of appearance. And appearance as such, the phenomenality of phenomena, has for its essential character novelty. A fortiori, the same holds for changes which take place contrary to our expectations and which thwart our predictions: the problem of their initial upsurge into our view, an upsurge which they alone initiate, is that of the phenomenalization of phenomena, and thus of the temporalization of time. Philosophy does not say much about hope. Hope is omnipresent in all of human life: it is difficult to relate to the future other than through hope. The mortal languor of boredom covers existence in a persistent fog through which no lamp can shine. Its void is an oppressive void that makes of distended and suspended time a parody of eternity. The risk of boredom finds its way into all waiting, even the least painful.
