a social world made entirely of non-connection
His entire set of interpersonal associations consisted of persons who did not care about him plus persons who wished him harm.
Context
The isolation stated as an arithmetic of relationships: every channel out of him leads either to indifference or to malice, with no third category. It is the premise the seizure will dramatize — a man whose Withdrawal has no one to be told to, aimed at last only toward the Antitois because they are the sole people left who "owed him a kindness."