"Everything immediately surrounding her -- boring countryside, inane petty bourgeois, the mediocrity of daily life -- seemed to her the exception rather than the rule. She had been caught in it all by some accident: out beyond, there stretched as far as the eye could see the immense territory of rapture and passions."
Reina: Someone help me please!!! I'm so bored!!!! Eri: I think Reina is losing it. Reina: *Makes a high pitch scream and waving arms around* Eri: *Sigh* Yeah, she's lost it.