Monday, October 10, 2022

Boring People

Montesquieu, My Thoughts (Mes Pensées), §47, tr. Henry C. Clark:

BORING. There are quite a few types. Some are so uniform in their conversation that nothing ever comes of it. Others are so lazy that they let everything drop; in vain do you exhaust yourself trying to revive the conversation; you toss out some topics to them, they abandon them all. Others make us go into the void, trahunt per inania.1

 1. «Drag us through the emptiness.»

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