IF YOU GO The best way to experience the peculiar grandeur of southeastern Idaho is to visit the Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, where several groomed trails and campgrounds offer painless access to one of the West's last slices of pure, untrammeled solitude.
The goal was to harness a language that would annihilate meaning, moving poetry toward the purer plane of solitude and silence.
Rousseau's thoughts also reminded me of Heather Havrilesky's piece in the magazine's Riff section, where she argues that our culture is still held by a longing for pure isolation, independence and solitude.
Ms. Muller's new "Spores, Solitude and Summer Humming," a pure-dance piece for eight set to music performed on tape by Bobby McFerrin with Yo-Yo Ma and Chick Corea, was undone by its length, repetitiveness and generally purposeless-looking movement.
And for all its pure-dance veneer, the ballet resonates with echoes of memory, solitude, brief-lived passion and abandon.
Like an iPhone, an Apple Watch is only "simple and pure"—to quote Ive's film until it's a threat to sleep, solitude, or the happiness of someone near you in a cinema.
Like an iPhone, an Apple Watch is only "simple and pure" — to quote Ive's film — until it's a threat to sleep, solitude, or the happiness of someone near you in a cinema.
This is, of course, an insane thing to suggest — that solitude is a condition merely to be endured and vanquished — yet there's something optimistic, almost pure, about the way Spears approaches sex as an antidote to boredom or heartache.
