No wonder then that solitary confinement and sensory deprivation are the worst punishment that can be meted out. Else we go virtual and turn on the television or the radio or the computer-anything with a population of worldly creatures to reassure ourselves that we are not alone, to tune out the howl of the Wind within, the Ruah-the breath, the spirit. Thus, if a real human is not around we turn to our pets. Because we consider loneliness a blight we try at every instance to defend ourselves against it, for to have an audience with God is petrifying to see God's face would make us go completely insane. the Void, the cavernous keep within that is God. We are afraid to be alone, for to be so is to face a void.
Thus most of what passes off as urgent business or necessary tasks of our daily grind are merely divertissement from the 'order of our life,' our life purpose, our meandering journey toward the meaning of our lives. There is a psychophobia-a reluctance to face who we really are. I believe we fear solitude and aloneness. I remember telling a friend a couple of years ago that our everyday business-busyness seems to be a diversion, a desperate attempt to keep loneliness and depression at bay, that the order of the day is among the 'ten thousand things' to distract us from the telos of human life. Rainer Maria Rilke Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. I may have tried it out on that browser but I don't even want to know how mangled this page looks there (that's why I've hidden the stylesheet from it). Opera 6 and lower, however, fail miserably in displaying the sidenotes correctly. Surprisingly, IE5.5/Win gets the absolute positioning quite well. When one note follows closely the preceding one there is a chance the two will overlap one another as in notes 2 and 3 below specially if the notes are lengthy.īecause the notes are marked up adjacent to the note numbers the page is still quite readable even without a style sheet.Īs for browsers that correctly render this page, Mozilla 1.0 certainly does a good job. The only problem here is overlap between two adjacent sidenotes. CSS is then used to position the notes onto the right sidebar at the horizontal level where the note numbers are. Here the notes are marked up where they appear as span elements beside the note numbers. There are footnotes and endnotes for printed pages, but for the virtual page, given its unchallenged versatility, "sidenotes" offer a new and better way of presenting notes
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