Charlie Citrine, protagonist of Saul Bellow's "Humboldt's Gift," sets out to write a history of boredom, musing that perhaps it is "a kind of pain caused by unused powers, the pain of wasted possibilities or talents".
And watching it now really brought home to me a sense of the wasted possibilities of my own generation, of what we did not achieve in part because of certain attitudes and issues of temperament that are dealt with in this film.
In Saul Bellow's "Humboldt's Gift," the narrator — a writer who spends the "final Eisenhower years" trying to write the definitive treatise on boredom — describes it as "a kind of pain caused by unused powers, the pain of wasted possibilities or talents,... accompanied by expectations of the optimum utilization of capacities".
Lester came down hard on artists when (he felt) they squandered that potential, wasted the revolutionary possibility in rock.
Instead, the system irreversibly wasted both talent and possibility and altered the incentives that influenced talented young Americans' career decisions.
The Liverpool manager's greatest lament was directed at a series of wasted final passes, encouraging possibilities never becoming clear chances.
I wish Whitehead and I had known of this possibility before we wasted 10 years doing it by hand".
Reprints Related items Tom DeLay's troubles: Local heroMay 5th 2005Yet as Mr Bush reached the first 100 days of his second term last weekend, the talk was not of "transformation" but of frustration and the possibility of a wasted second term.
"It was a day or so after the Carling Cup final when we sat down and flushed everything out between ourselves," said Terry when asked if this squad had ever had to confront the possibility of a wasted season.
In this way, the high amount of energy consumption in these units because of eliminating of some parts of mixed fluid cascade system has been reduced, and the possibility of using wasted energy of plant has been provided.
No one likes confronting the possibility of having wasted their lives chasing a phantasm of an idea, but that's what being a theorist is all about.
