Jurate Kazlauskaite Mar 22, 2012:

A lonely togetherness http://www.lurvely.com/photo/5797648915/a_lonely_togethernes...

Susan Welsh Mar 22, 2012:

The actual sentence... would be helpful.

katerina turevich Mar 22, 2012:

I wonder... if one can say "Mutually imposed solitude", as best expression of what goes on in a situation like this. I suppose it's when two people literally push each other into silence.

Amy Lesiewicz Mar 22, 2012:

Anna Akhmatova I immediately thought of the Anna Akhmatova poem "The Last Toast," which uses these words. Here's one translation:
I drink to our ruined house,
to all of life’s evils too,
to our ***mutual loneliness***,
and I, I drink to you –
to eyes, dead and cold,
to lips, lying and treacherous,
to the age, coarse, and cruel,
to the fact no god has saved us.
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Russian/Akhmatova.h...