all those extraneous people had life itself to fret about and , for the most part , could afford to cede the faculty of creativity-against-boredom to the idle rich and the self-palsifying members of the intelligentsia ; they had but to disjoin their eyelids in the morning and without any conscious effort on their part they would be presented , nay , flooded by life itself with myriad trivial tasks to perform and minuscule goals to achieve and prosaic dreams to prostitute .