Loneliness And The Strange Alone-Togetherness Of The Internet Age
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6 min readDec 23, 2015
By July Westhale
I n Swann’s Way, Proust (and Lydia Davis, who translated it) talks about sleep as a lived, real experience that affects waking, that affects the day, that affects the shape of a life. If you sleep hard enough, the map of your brain will slip away, disorient itself, and you will wake not knowing where you are, or what has happened.