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Work #626 · Late

The Long Loneliness

Dorothy Day
1952 · English
Spiritual autobiography · American Catholic Worker movement

Dorothy Day's 1952 foundational autobiography — the Catholic Worker, voluntary poverty, hospitality, pacifism

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Attribute The Long Loneliness (Late)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Scripture
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

The Long Loneliness

The biographical-spiritual time of conversion and Catholic Worker.

Space

The Long Loneliness

The Catholic Worker houses-of-hospitality space.

Matter

The Long Loneliness

The embodied voluntary-poverty practitioner.

Observer

The Long Loneliness

Day as Catholic-Worker witness.

Energy

The Long Loneliness

Energies of voluntary poverty and hospitality.

Information

The Long Loneliness

Foundational Catholic-Worker autobiographical framework.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

The Long Loneliness

Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker movement foundational for American Catholic radical-social tradition; canonization process underway.