solitude
I love to be alone
The cubicle
Somebody is living on this beach
Words which are things
How painful life here would be
Exploiting emotion
To the Lighthouse
The Waste Land
Being Alone
Bo Burnham: Inside
A Film by Bo BurnhamWalden
A Book by Henry David Thoreau
Beauty and compression
An Article by Scott Alexander
The Buddha discusses states of extreme bliss attainable through meditation:
Secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unwholesome states, a bhikkhu enters and dwells in the first jhāna, which is accompanied by thought and examination, with rapture and happiness born of seclusion.
...If you could really concentrate on a metronome, it would be more blissful than a symphony. The jhāna is also a strong contender as a theory of beauty: beauty is that which is compressible but has not already been compressed.