Lonely town. Exercises in the art of loneliness (№ 400593)

What it's like to be lonely? A feeling akin to hunger: still hungry when everything is prepared for the feast. There is shame and anxiety, and over time they begin to exude outward, and a lone man is increasingly cut off from the rest, increasingly alienated. It hurts as hurt feelings, but there are physical consequences: they are invisible, hidden inside the closed cavities of the body. Loneliness setting in, I'm trying to say, cold as ice, and clear as glass, it encloses and absorbs.