Ennui

New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 151, 15 May 1942, Page 7

Ennui

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{"The Army psychologists came to the conclusion that women have a high physical capacity . . . they are more easily bored than men, but are more resourceful in entertaining themselves. | . . -’- Cable from London.] OU cannot lightly set aside The Findings of Psychologists: To classify and analyse The human Mind, its Kinks and Twists, Is Work that’s better left, I feel, To Those who have the Skill and Zeal! H, not for me to puzzle out How Reflex Arcs may be defined, To test Intelligence, or dredge The Depths of the Unconscious Mind, Or piously invoke the Names Of Freud or Jung or William James! UT in the Ways of Womenthere The Expert treads on shaky Ground! What Method can be valid there? What Intuition safe or sound To demonstrate that Woman can Be bored more easily than Man? DEGREES of Boredom there may be, But surely it’s an empty Boast To hint that one can estimate What bores a Woman least or most, And how she can be bored, and whyThe Expert knows no more than I! N°? doubt they've measured Boredom on Some canny scientific Scale, By laboratory Tests compared The female Subject with the Male, To prove-Oh Psycho-fiddlesticks! That Half-a-dozen equals Six.