"Islands lose their loneliness."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.

"Crowded though all alone."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1957.

Today's moment of existential angst is from Dark Shadows.  In parts one, two, three, and four, we saw how Dark Shadows beat Seifeld to be the first show about nothing. 

Can the very absence of the bogeyman be terrifying in itself?  "There was no one there with me and I was frightened."  Today's moment of existential angst is from Dark Shadows.  In parts one, two, three, and four, we saw how Dark Shadows beat Seifeld to be the first show about nothing. 

"Korea has wanted to be left alone for four thousand years!"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1948.

"Isolation Peek."  From Toike Oike, 1955.

From The Lighted Pathway, 1982.

"Does anybody know I'm here?"  From The Link, 1964.

"The chance to isolate oneself."  From Wesleyan College's 1967 yearbook.

"Do you live in crowded loneliness?"  From Awake magazine, 1958.

Before the invention of the cell phone, people had to isolate themselves in different ways.  From Kent State's 1982 yearbook.

Before cell phones, people had to isolate themselves in different ways.  From Santa Clara's 1979 yearbook.

"Rocker inclosed in screen."  From Popular Mechanics, 1930.

"Don't bother about me.  I'll fight it out alone here in the room." —Arthur Leland Fong, Dec. 16, 1923 (written on the back of a photograph).

"It is a day when I feel my friends almost justified in their scrupulous avoidance of me."  From English Illustrated, 1898.  (Previously, we discovered this precursor to the "unfollow" and "unfriend" phenomenon of social media.)