To live alone is to be immensely in charge of the silence

So that, if you have something to think about, you will probably think
_     _ about that something, long and hard; & probably—since you’re
_     _ usually able to—uninterruptedly, too,
Possibly for entire afternoons or evenings, or indeed for whole days
_     _ on end!

Therefore, if you are living alone &—horrors!—are therefore mostly
_     _ by yourself, with only yourself to keep yourself company (except,
_     _ of course, for an occasional visitor!)
It’s especially important, I think, to accomplish things especially
_     _ wisely & well, since—just in case you foul up on things—you’re
_     _ the only one you’re probably going to be able to blame, for things
_     _ that happen to go wrong . . .

Certainly, if you are living alone, it’s important to choose those
_     _ friends & acquaintances, & lovers, too, whom you do see,
_     _ especially wisely & well
—That is, for their benign & unannoying qualities,
Lest they endlessly crowd your mind, & cloud the horizon of your
_     _ thoughtfulness, by giving you pointlessly troubling things to
_     _ think about,
Such as problems they themselves may have refused to solve, or may
_     _ have been unable to solve, in relation to their own lives,

—Possessing, as most people do, the scattering distractions of, say, a
_     _ busily uproarious, merry family; or of highly sociable room-mates
_     _ coming & going like cuckoos popping in & out of cuckoo-clocks;
Or, even, of multiple beeper-units which they have had installed upon
_     _ their telephones, so as to prevent them—should they ever happen
_     _ to be alone, & receive, for example, a thought-provoking phone-
_     _ call—
From having to follow any single thought straight through to its
_     _ natural end.

In-Dwelling Groups know almost nothing about Privacy!

—For there, there is always, inevitably, some erratically interruptive,
_     _ intrusive bit of bullshit going down
Which, minimally, renders the possibility of Continuity Of Thought—
_     _ much less consideration of the mental well-being of those people
_     _ living alone, & who may, therefore, be highly disposed to
_     _ treasuring Continuity Of Thought—
Highly unlikely!; & any serious perspective of sensitivity, vis-à-vis
_     _ the situation of a person living alone—& thus with only himself
_     _ or herself to blame for things that happen to go either right or
_     _ wrong—
In general, almost impossible!

—But persons living alone should not think too much about all this
But rather substitute for many such defensive, negative thoughts as
_     _ those,

The idea, above all, of choosing friends wisely & well
From among those people, for example, who have been responsible
_     _ for themselves, & for themselves alone, for at least some few
_     _ moments, & for at least some continuous time

Within recent memory.