Everyone at this conference kept invoking loneliness and claiming the antidote was conversation. That didn’t track with my own experience. My most desperate moments of loneliness have been in conversation: on a Hinge date, doomed but persisting as a form of protocol. At a publishing party, surrounded by people who look and talk like me, all of us a little drunk but maintaining our nervous, manic professionalism.
I hope that’s generated, because the section you quote makes only a dim amount of sense, and then only if you take on most of collaborative work of communication as the reader
Actually the main reason I’m commenting is because I wanted to say, I love your username!
I hope that’s generated, because the section you quote makes only a dim amount of sense, and then only if you take on most of collaborative work of communication as the reader
Actually the main reason I’m commenting is because I wanted to say, I love your username!