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essential depths of boredom, there is nothing at all to be seen of time-just as though we were blinded by the nearness of the essence of boredom. It is indeed so, and not merely here in this particular attunement of boredom. In all interpretation of what is essential in every field and area of Dasein, there comes the point at which all knowledge and in particular all learned wisdom is of no further assistance. No matter how avidly we scrape together what people before us have said, it is of no avail if we cannot summon the energy for simply seeing what is essential-precisely at the point where it seems as if there is nothing more to see or to grasp. And so it is now. On the one side, we have a certain insight into the character of profound boredom, yet nothing of time or the time-structure of this boredom. On the other side, we have some knowledge of the temporal essence of boredom as such and thus an expectation that the time-character of precisely this profound boredom will leap out and confront us in a major way.

Given this state of affairs, there remains only one option: to continue along its own lines the interpretation we have begun, without regard to the initially concealed temporal essence of this-and precisely this-third form of boredom, instead of giving up our interpretation and forcibly dragging in the time-structure externally corresponding to those forms of boredom discussed earlier.

We grasped being left empty in this third form as being delivered over to beings' telling refusal of themselves as a whole. This telling refusal is in itself-not by chance, but corresponding to its essence as telling refusal-a telling announcement of the unexploited possibilities of Dasein, which finds itself there in such being delivered over in the midst of beings. In such telling announcement of refused possibilities there lies something like an indication of something else, of the possibilities as such, of the unexploited possibilities as possibilities of Dasein. This telling announcement which points toward ... thus goes together with such telling refusal. It is now a matter of determining this more closely. For only in this way will we bring to light the specific being held in limbo of the third form, and indeed in its relation to being left empty. Now if this telling announcement which points toward the possibilities of Dasein goes together with such telling refusal, then the specific character of this telling announcement, and thus of the being held in limbo which we are seeking, will also be determined by the specific character of the telling refusal of beings as a whole. Wherein does what is peculiar to this telling refusal consist?

It is boring for one. It is not this or that being that we are bored by. It is not we who, on the occasion of this particular situation, are ourselves bored rather: it is boring for one. It is not this or that being within easy reach in this particular situation which tellingly refuses itself, but rather all those beings which precisely envelop us in the situation recede into an indifference.