When I saw how much human ties could mean, how intensely a person could long for the loved one who is absent, I began to realize how indefinate my own longing had been. I had been longing simply to be unalone, to find someone or something. It was not that I had no human ties. Rather I had not been living out of the human ties i did have. The loneliness I brought with me..., the loneliness of being thrown back upon oneself and confined within the solitude of one's heart, I began to see or I see now as I reflect upon it all, was not due to a lack of human ties but to a disregard of the ties that actually exist. - John Dunne, The Church of the Poor Devil.