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Olivia Laing

The Lonely City

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  • Yelena Jetpyspayevacompartió una citahace 6 años
    You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavour to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by millions of people.
  • ulfadwiocompartió una citahace 2 años
    Loneliness is difficult to confess; difficult too to categorise. Like depression, a state with which it often intersects, it can run deep in the fabric of a person
  • b5559146454compartió una citahace 3 meses
    Many marvellous things have emerged from the lonely city: things forged in loneliness, but also things that function to redeem it.
  • b5559146454compartió una citahace 3 meses
    demands of human intimacy. Terrified of physical contact, he rarely left the house without an armoury of cameras and tape recorders, using them to broker and buffer interactions: behaviour that has light to shed on how we deploy technology in our own century of so-called connectivity.
  • b5559146454compartió una citahace 3 meses
    Like depression, a state with which it often intersects, it can run deep in the fabric of a person, as much a part of one’s being as laughing easily or having red hair
  • ulfadwiocompartió una citael año pasado
    I knew what I looked like. I looked like a woman in a Hopper painting. The girl in Automat, maybe, in a cloche hat and green coat, gazing into a cup of coffee, the window behind her reflecting two rows of lights, swimming into blackness. Or the one in Morning Sun, who sits on her bed, hair twisted into a messy bun, gazing through her window at the city beyond.
  • salnajlaacompartió una citael año pasado
    I’ve come to believe that he was right, that loneliness is by no means a wholly worthless experience, but rather one that cuts right to the heart of what we value and what we need.
  • salnajlaacompartió una citael año pasado
    I wanted to understand what it means to be lonely, and how it has functioned in people’s lives, to attempt to chart the complex relationship between loneliness and art.
  • salnajlaacompartió una citael año pasado
    Interesting, the idea that loneliness might be taking you towards an otherwise unreachable experience of reality.
  • salnajlaacompartió una citael año pasado
    Like depression, a state with which it often intersects, it can run deep in the fabric of a person, as much a part of one’s being as laughing easily or having red hair.
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