While I haven't managed to get a copy of The Secret Sharer, based on the plot, I don't think it will be OVERLY useful in my research of ideas on isolation; apparently, the only exploration of isolation is through the main character, a Captain of a ship who feels isolated as he is not familiar with his crew. I don't know largely this isolation features in the novella, so I'll put this book's priority on the backburner for a while.
As for Monos and Daimonos, I managed to find a .pdf of it after Googling the title, and though I haven't yet read it (and I plan to, because it's only five pages long), the opening lines have introduced to me a new idea about a factor in isolation that I had not thought of before: the effect of the loss of family ("I had neither brothers nor sisters; my mother died when I was in the cradle...").
Also, in the couple minutes since my last update in this journal, I came up with a very simplistic storyline to think about, so at the very least, I'd have a basic skeleton story structure to work with, as opposed to nothing; mainly, I thought about the idea of hating society yet simply not being able to remove oneself from it, and decided to base one story around a character who despises his surroundings, yet is torn between staying and leaving. The conclusion of the story will be either his staying or leaving. It feels like a really simplistic storyline to me, so I'll ask around to see what other people think; I feel like the stories I have in this suite should not be so simple and straightforward.
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