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They say nothing is sure in this life except death and taxes. In the case of The Pale King, David Foster Wallace’s final, unfinished novel (before he committed suicide in 2008), the two certainties are combined: the novelist himself is a fictional character in the book which takes on the lives of tax form examiners, a kind of slow-death existential crisis that leaches away the very humanity from most souls laboring at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois.

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K-Zone takes kids on a whole new adventure with its latest book release, K-Zone Boredom Busters 2!

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Last week’s column on boredom drew such a response that I had to turn off my cell to be able to have a brief siesta and a long night’s sleep.

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Maybe because I went back to work, I began reading business books again. There I was fiddling through The 4-Hour Workweek, written by Timothy Ferriss, not sure if I liked it or not, until I hit a chapter about work being also a source of happiness.

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We see them everywhere: under the shade of trees, at some public benches, in every idle space available. From their own neigborhoods, they soon expanded to public parks and, of late, the shopping malls. We call them the istambays.

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MANILA, Philippines - Are you on that stage where you would do anything to get rid of your boredom?

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                    [DatePublished] => 2020-04-23 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 135522
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1805274
                    [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila
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                    [DatePublished] => 2019-07-20 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Fr. Roy Cimagala
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They say nothing is sure in this life except death and taxes. In the case of The Pale King, David Foster Wallace’s final, unfinished novel (before he committed suicide in 2008), the two certainties are combined: the novelist himself is a fictional character in the book which takes on the lives of tax form examiners, a kind of slow-death existential crisis that leaches away the very humanity from most souls laboring at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois.

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K-Zone takes kids on a whole new adventure with its latest book release, K-Zone Boredom Busters 2!

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Last week’s column on boredom drew such a response that I had to turn off my cell to be able to have a brief siesta and a long night’s sleep.

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Maybe because I went back to work, I began reading business books again. There I was fiddling through The 4-Hour Workweek, written by Timothy Ferriss, not sure if I liked it or not, until I hit a chapter about work being also a source of happiness.

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We see them everywhere: under the shade of trees, at some public benches, in every idle space available. From their own neigborhoods, they soon expanded to public parks and, of late, the shopping malls. We call them the istambays.

[DatePublished] => 2009-07-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135300 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1135559 [AuthorName] => Archie Modequillo [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => cebu-lifestyle [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 445183 [Title] => Ban the boredom with Teazperiments [Summary] =>

MANILA, Philippines - Are you on that stage where you would do anything to get rid of your boredom?

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