Valor's Minion

“The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage.”
--Yevgeny Zamyatin

The Loneliness Epidemic

This article is beautiful and so terribly sad.

Everyone should read this.

When I tried to mention [my loneliness] to my doctor — a man with a wife, three children and a busy practice — he laughed and said that he’d love, yes, love, to have some time alone. He misunderstood me so fundamentally that I left the surgery without a word.