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Four conversations in which one speaker annoys the other. Coloured etching, 1800.

A parson guilty of long tedious sermons has fallen asleep as a veteran relates at length the tactics used at the battle of Dettingen: both ignore a woman who brings them a  dish of cooked chicken. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.

World War One: three French prisoners of war slouching in a prison yard. Colour halftone after a crayon drawing by L. Raemaekers.

An army officer lectures his bored class on the effects of gas, one student is made to wear a gas mask while another wickedly tries to set light to it. Pen and ink drawing by H. Bury, 1916.

A student reads to an audience the epic poems of Sir Richard Blackmore and the sermons of John ("Orator") Henley to find out which is the more soporific; his audience fall asleep with boredom. Etching by C. Grignion after F. Hayman.

Holy fire / Bruce Sterling.

Fatigue and boredom in repetitive work / by S. Wyatt and J.N. Langdon ; assisted by F.G.L. Stock.

Holy fire : a novel / Bruce Sterling.

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A student reads to an audience the epic poems of Sir Richard Blackmore and the sermons of John ("Orator") Henley to find out which is the more soporific; his audience fall asleep with boredom. Etching by C. Grignion after F. Hayman.

Holy fire / Bruce Sterling.

Four conversations in which one speaker annoys the other. Coloured etching, 1800.

Fatigue and boredom in repetitive work / by S. Wyatt and J.N. Langdon ; assisted by F.G.L. Stock.

Holy fire : a novel / Bruce Sterling.