Gary’s Reviews > The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone > Status Update

"It was becoming increasingly easy to see how people ended up vanishing in cities, disappearing in plain sight . . . I was getting a taste of it, all right, but what on earth would it be like to live the whole of your life like this, occupying the blind spot in other people's existences, their noisy intimacies? If anyone can be said to have worked from that place, it's Henry Darger" (p. 136).