3 essays on loneliness from the Consilium journal. Featuring Virginia Woolf, Rainer Maria Rilke, bell hooks. Each pits three thinkers against one hard question.
Three thinkers on loneliness inside love. Woolf says solitude has been taken from you. Rilke says two people cannot fill each other. hooks says love is an action, not just a feeling.
Three thinkers on feeling unseen. Du Bois names the gap between self and perception. Woolf asks what the people who love you can actually hold. Dickinson says some invisibility is chosen.
Three thinkers on staying out of fear. Bowlby says the need is real. Pascal says you haven't tried. Hurston asks if you know who you are without them.
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