that fundamentally this is nothing that one can choose or refrain from. we are solitary. we can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. that is all. but how much better it is to recognize that we are alone; yes, even to begin from this realization. it will, of course, make us dizzy; for all points that our eyes used to rest on are taken away from us, there is no longer anything near us, and everything far away is infinitely far. a man taken out of his room and, almost without preparation or transition, placed on the heights of a great mountain range, would feel something like that: an unequalled insecurity, an abandonment to the nameless, would almost annihilate him. he would feel he was falling or think he was being catapulted out into space or exploded into a thousand pieces: what a colossal lie his brain would have to invent in order to catch up with and explain the situation of his senses. that is how all distances, all measures, change for the person who become

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