The Scofield, Summer 2015 Issue 1.1 - David Markson, Solitude

Publication details not specified. — 184 p. (In English)Writing is inherently a solitary act. You sit at a desk. You drag a pen or a pencil across some blank paper. You tickle keys that correspond to letters on a typewriter or a computer. However you do it, you do it alone.
Reading, too, is a solitary act. Sure, you can read aloud or be read aloud to. Likely that’s how your interaction with words began, with your parents reading you stories. But most of your reading is probably done alone and in silence — the words, your only partner at the dance.
This, the first issue of The Scofield, is for you and you alone, you who are alone, you who write and read and love writing and reading.
Our guiding principle here at The Scofield is to create a place where lovers of literature gather. Of course, we aren’t actually gathering. We are still in solitude, reading these words alone. The hope though — as is the hope, I suspect, with all artistic endeavors — is to transcend our loneliness, to populate our solitude with others.