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I feel like if I got everything I wanted at all times with no effort or risk forever, I might eventually get bored ... but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be 'quickly'.
He can't take it from boredom within a month, which I think is fairly quickly even without comparing it to eternity.
If he plays a game of billiards, he magically sinks all 15 balls in the break. He wins every game he plays at the casino. His entourage of attractive women are functionally robots. None of the other people are real, because they definitionally can't be (and he's told as much). He's rich beyond his wildest dreams, but the money he spent his entire life scrounging for is suddenly meaningless. Even if he tries to make it so he doesn't always win (the example being wanting to rob a bank), he knows ahead of time a single numerical probability that he'll succeed.
And creature comforts only get you so far. Farther than a month until you can't take it? Probably. Although the burglar is portrayed as craving the risk-taking of his former life (edit: and reading between the lines, part of the reason it's so torturous for him specifically is because all he ever wants is to win). And it'd definitely happen eventually, which in the context of infinity is a blip.
Yeah, for a character like that, sure.
But, I mean, if 'everything I wanted' included a library of good books, I think I'd be happy for a few years at least.
Probably. This is something I thought a lot about when considering "Heaven" and its eternity: you eventually know everything there is to know about anything you could possibly interested in, and you eventually have all the conversations you could have. But this version of Hell makes it "worse" (not technically, because any finite time against eternity is infinitesimal, but you get the point).
If you've ever read the fairytale "The Magic Thread", you know what the problem is. Namely that you could learn the contents of any book in an instant. You could skip any boring chapter you wanted and still be able to recite it word for word. Any boring paragraph even. Boring sentence. You could know everything there ever was to know in a nanosecond. There's nothing stopping you, and you don't even have to wish for it aloud or anything.
Pretty much inevitably, a human will start to optimize the fun out of reading, because they'll be a little bit bored and skip to the exciting part with all the requisite knowledge. Without material barriers, this will keep snowballing.
And, of course, probably one of the few things you can't do is just reset yourself to forget, since that goes against the torture.
Yep. The afterlife is tailored to the individual. If you're a sinner when you die, the books will probably all be missing their second half.
The Twilight Zone ironically has its own infamous suggestion for what Hell looks like for an avid reader.