The Second Kind of Loneliness

Where do we draw the line between solitude and loneliness? George R. R. Martin's The Second Kind of Loneliness meditates on the conflicting subjectivity that attempts to answer this question. Martin makes the distant vantage point intimate enough to be intimidating. https://youtu.be/GO5FwsblpT8 The story is a few diary entries from a lonely astronaut at the…