I thought I knew you but I don’t know you at all. We are separated one from another by concrete walls, I in my concrete cell, you in yours. We cannot hear one another to speak to one another; we cannot see one another to write or sign to one another. I am in my concrete cell and you are in yours, in a massive hive in which each man, each woman lives in his or her own cell alone, everyone lives in his own concrete cell alone, her own concrete cell alone. We can tap codes to one another, but I interpret your codes my own way, you interpret my codes your own way; we don’t have common codes, and each must guess at what the other means. Here we are, in a giant hive, each in a concrete cell, billions of us, stretching on from horizon to horizon, each alone in his cell, each alone in her cell, tapping nonsense for our loneliness, not knowing what anybody means.