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Why we have both 'a' and 'an.' What does it mean to be lonely? Sufficiency.
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Loneliness - A New Concept
Lonely is a relatively new concept and once had an easy cure. In early modern Britain, to stray too far from society was to surrender the protections it provided. John Milton's 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost features one of the first lonely characters in all of British literature - Satan. Even if we now enjoy the wilderness as a place of adventure and pleasure, the fear of loneliness persists.
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