Re: [lojban] Re: Alice - the xorlo version

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 05:15:08PM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Robin Lee Powell
> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> >
> > Certainly *exactly* the same thing over and over becomes
> > un-interesting, but that doesn't feel like draining of a limited
> > store of ability-to-be-interested at all.
> 
> It's not a draining of the ability to be interested in things in
> general, just of the ability to be interested in that particular
> thing. You start finding X boring when your interest in X has been
> exhausted. You've run out of any "interest-in-X-ness" you may have
> started with.

That's really not how it feels to me at all.  Things are generally
interesting from the beginning, or not.

-Robin

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