Hallucinating Foucault

Well – there are two kinds of loneliness, aren’t there? There’s the loneliness of absolute solitude – the physical fact of living alone, working alone….This need not be painful. But there is another kind of loneliness which is terrible to endure….And that is the loneliness of seeing a different world from that of the people around you. Their lives remain remote from yours. You can see the gulf and they can’t. You live among them. They walk on earth. You walk on glass. They reassure themselves with conformity, with carefully constructed resemblances. You are masked, aware of your absolute difference.