“You’ll be bored with your work, your spouses, your lover, the view from your window, the furniture or wallpaper in your room, your thoughts, yourselves.
Accordingly, you’ll try to devise ways of escape. Apart from the self-gadgets mentioned before, you may take up changing jobs, residence, company,, country, climate, you may take up promiscuity, alcohol, travel, cooking lessons, drugs, psychoanalysis…
In fact, you may lump all these together, and for a while that may work. Until the day, of course, when you wake up in your bedroom amid a new family and a different wallpaper, in a different state and climate, with a heaps of bills from your travel agent and your shrink, yet with the same stale feeling toward the light of the day pouring through your window.â€
- Joseph Brodsky
