Sublime

If you want to see what a person who is totally removed from relational interaction looks like, examine the brain of someone who endured prolonged solitary confinement in prison.

He’d come to consider himself a connoisseur of the grotesque,

I made this connection and though it was tenuous I was haunted by it. And since I felt so alone that day it became a friend.

“…the stammerings of an old man who does not seem to have achieved a full psychic victory over an awkward adolescence…”