Rendezvous With A Lonely Girl In A Dark Room -

She is not simply "alone." Loneliness is an active, gnawing state. In literature and art, the "lonely girl" is often depicted as possessing a profound interiority. She is the woman in the Edward Hopper painting, Morning Sun , sitting on a rumpled bed, staring at a window that offers no view of another person. She is the protagonist of Marguerite Duras’ The Lover , waiting by a river.

So the next time you find yourself alone, in the dark, waiting… listen closely. You might hear the soft sound of another person breathing on the other side of the wall. That is the invitation. The only question is: will you knock? rendezvous with a lonely girl in a dark room

And that was the rendezvous. Not a beginning. Not an end. Just two lonely people, meeting in the dark long enough to remember they weren’t alone in being so. She is not simply "alone

It was a strange kind of rendezvous. There was no chatter of a first date, no nervous clinking of glasses, no performative laughter. The silence between us was thick, textured like old wallpaper. I sat in the chair opposite her, a safe distance away, content to simply share the dark. She is the protagonist of Marguerite Duras’ The