Loneliness

The Unanswered

EXTREME RARE LOW · Temporal

Aloneness that aches. Connection reached for and not returned, held long enough to stop being an event and become a condition. Loneliness is not a headcount. It survives company. Solitude is the same arithmetic without the ache.

The word

Alone is a contraction of all one, and lone is its clipped form. For centuries the state had a neutral name, oneliness, that simply meant being by oneself; loneliness as a distinct ache is usually dated to the modern era, when being one stopped being a fact and became a wound.

The feeling

A hollowness with a direction: it points at people. It sharpens at predictable hours, evenings, Sundays, the moment after good news arrives with no one to tell. Company does not reliably touch it; the crowded room is famous for making it worse. The body registers it as a mild cold, a need to wrap something around itself.

Against its neighbours

Solitude is the same headcount without the ache: aloneness chosen, and therefore fed by it. Longing aims at one specific absence; loneliness is unaddressed, a reaching with no name on it.

In the work

A figure oriented toward something that does not turn back toward it. The frame leaves room for a second presence and never fills it.

2 works composed with Loneliness

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Loneliness

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The feeling

Against its neighbours

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2 works composed with Loneliness

Weight On My Faith

So Sick of Feeling

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The word

The feeling

Against its neighbours

In the work

2 works composed with Loneliness

Weight On My Faith

So Sick of Feeling

The list hears first.

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The rest of the Temporal family

Where Loneliness sits Ln · TEMPORAL FAMILY