Privilege.

Ducreux, Self-Portrait, Yawning, 1783

I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge. (It is an Inkling’s duty to be bored willingly. It is his privilege to be a borer on occasion). I sometimes conceive and write other things than verses or romance! And I may come back at you.

J.R.R. Tolkien, from a letter to C.S. Lewis, 1948