Siri Hustvedt
:: The Sorrows of an American
It was foolish to feel any emotion in response to an advertisement for soda pop, but when its image had dimmed, I thought to myself, They're all dying now, our fathers and our mothers - the immigrants and the exiles, the soldiers and the refugees, the boys and the girls - of "yore."
As he aged, he agonized over the disintegration of the neighborhood he had known and once said that one of the most overlooked evils in the world was loneliness.