"Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it’s something we can’t easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it’ll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it."
Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans (2000)
and yet the einzelganger does not feel the need to belong, does he?
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