What is most striking about Ondaatje's vision in Anil's Ghost is its terrible isolation.
Stubbornly, Jack elects to remain to carry out scientific readings, and he comes to realise that the island is haunted by the ghost of an old trapper – or is the manifestation nothing more than the psychological effects of the forbidding environment and his terrible isolation?
"I had a terrible feeling of loneliness and isolation during my six years here.
We may not be out there ranting, but if Britain voted to leave we would wake up on 24 June with a terrible sense of loss and isolation, a sadness that would be hard to shake.
In another case he asserted, "[r]esearch still confirms what this court suggested over a century ago: Years on end of near-total isolation exact a terrible price".
While Kennedy joined with the conservative majority against a defendant who had been held in solitary confinement for most of his 25 years in prison in a 2015 case, he wrote a separate concurring opinion about his opposition to the practice: "Research still confirms what this Court suggested over a century ago: Years on end of near-total isolation exact a terrible price".
" I think one of the things about schizophrenia, I don' t know whether it' s schizophrenia or whether it' s, it happens in other mental illnesses too, is this terrible, terrible kind of inner isolation feeling, like you' re the only person… who is going through what you are going through and you, and you' re completely alone it' s just a terrible, painful sense of utter loneliness and isolation".
When her side lost, she was stranded for a terrible winter in a room on 124th Street, in a different sort of isolation.
His second novel, Who? (1958), which was filmed in 1974, is a stunning parable of isolation and internal exile: a scientist, rebuilt into a masked cyborg after a terrible accident, must attempt to prove his identity.
His lawyer, Pavel Sapelko, who visited him at the KGB's isolation unit, known as Amerikanka, on Monday, said he "could hardly walk" and looked "a terrible sight".
