>Irina Dumitrescu studies "The Art of Solitude," the recently published book by Stephen Batchelor. > The Art of Solitude offers no absorbing, linear narrative. Inspired by his artistic practice of collage making, Batchelor arranges the book’s sections into a partly random mosaic of found objects: memories, reflections, favorite quotations. He is guided by a principle of non-contiguity: no two chapters on the same theme appear together. His goal is to reduce his own authorial control and allow the reader to make meaning out of the disparate parts, perhaps even finding gems that had escaped the author’s notice.

That is why it is not enough to remove oneself from people, not enough to go somewhere else. We have to remove ourselves from the habits of the populace that are within us. We have to isolate our own self and return it to our possession. We carry our chains with us; we are not entirely free. We keep returning our gaze to the things we have left behind.

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