In praise of monotony Robert Champion
The word monotony is almost always used negatively, as are its synonyms: tedious, boring, uneventful, featureless and mind numbing. They conjure up the dull repetitiveness from which the modern mind – taught to value variety and immediate reward – recoils from in disgust. But this pejorative usage is only one side of the coin, since there can be beauty in monotonous phenomena. I doubt anyone has described the flow of a river or waves on a beach in such a
