Diaries/journals/accounts of people (preferably women) having spent time in complete solitude.
Any recommendations?
mine tbqh
>preferably women
Why?
>>7355934
>women
>spent time in complete solitude
Impossible.
Julian of Norwich is pretty crazy
she lived in the wall of some church in medieval times
>>7355971
my understanding of the effect on human beings that substantial and, importantly, wilful solitude has is that it reduces people to a very basic existence, and necessitates stripping away the parts of oneself which one might hold as the bedrocks of their personality. since i believe that we are all the same on a human level, i'm interested to see what differences there could be in men's and women's experiences of being alone.
>>7355934
>women having spent time in complete solitude.
im sure by not having anyone to annoy or peers to talk shit with about their sentimental life, they become men after a while
Margery Kempe.
She writes about how she comes to terms with Jesus raping her.
>>7356142
she knew no solitude
Immortality by Milan Kundera
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Dillard's books have a general solitary mood, as if she wrote them in a vacuum. They're like the literary equivalent of Grouper's (Liz Harris) music.
>>7355934
Nellie Bly was a reporter that pretended to be insane to get herself committed to the asylum on Blackwell Island in NY to uncover the truth behind how they treated their patients and their misconduct.
Her articles became a best selling book "Ten Days In A Madhouse"
>>7356161
>Milan Kundera
That's funny.
nobody's gonna mention good old H to the D to the T?
>>7357644
His mom was bringing him cookies
KIERKEGAARD
>>7357769
I have his entire collection of journals. Aside from his actual auto biographical volumes he has three entires under Solitude which go like:
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It is disastrous enough to be taken by surprise when one is seeking solitude. Yet it depends on whether one is surprised by a wanderer who has lost his way or by a group that probably only seldom comes there, but to have found one's solitary nook and then suddenly to be surprised by a solitary person who is looking for the same thing is just as disastrous as to become the object of an insane man's fixed idea or the fixed idea of a hysterical female.
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It is a frightful satire and an epigram of the temporality of the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence. How different from the time when however secular-minded temporality has always been--men believed in the solitude of the monastery, when-they honored solitude as the highest, as a qualification of the eternal-and nowadays it is detested as a curse and is used only as a punishment for criminals. Alas, what a change!
The journals themselves probably offer a better understanding of a mind in solitude, though.
>>7355934
Tfw no turtleneck painting gf
