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Reader Feedback on "Lonely Planet"
I think Douglas has just described de twenties perfectly!!
It's amazing, he did that with one paragraph with such sensibility, that's why he's my favourite! <3
--PC
01/30 |
Douglas,
Are you differentiating between loneliness and aloneness? I don't see that you are, given your response to the question about on-line dating. I disagree with your comment. I'd have to say it helps with the need for company and may combat the aloneness part, but as you seem to imply, loneliness is a question of the interior. (By the way, "eradication" means complete absence, something I don't think any electronic means of communication can do for any human condition.) As for the part about the atomizing of society and its effect of creating more material consumption: It's the same thing as keeping up with the Joneses. When your character asks herself if her appearance/personality merits certain material goods, she's doing the same as at any time in a consumer society. She's comparing herself with standards outside herself, and having to define her life by the most dubious of measures.
Everyone's been lonely at some time or other; maybe it could be accepted as part of the human condition rather than a state which has to be escaped. I think you touch on that when you talk about making the distinction between loneliness and depression.
PS I've enjoyed several of your novels.
--MK
01/26 |
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