“But it was not just the poor whom Holdt encountered. He found an equal, even greater loneliness among the middle and upper class Americans who were equally hospitable. “I really met a lot of lonesome Americans in those years,” he recalls. “And I’m not sure so much in black society as in white society…
Usually, the way they would “take out their frustrations” on Holdt was simply by talking, and talking and talking. “There was a great need to reveal all kinds of things about their lives. Not so much in me telling them anything, but simply a need to talk to somebody about their frustrations,” he says.”
(Source: lossoflosia)
