Word: hermit
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...unfit first-year at UCLA, for you will soon become a hermit, locked in your tiny double in Rieber Hall for fear that someone will point and laugh. Fitness is simply life for Bruins. The John Wooden Athletic Center, located in the middle of campus, is larger than all of Adams House. Everyone here is so hard-core that you’d feel silly simply walking on a treadmill—at Wooden, they’re more like sprinting machines. Feeling particularly adventurous? Don’t miss the larger-than-life simulated mountain in the middle...
...somewhere else. But behind the row of one- and two-story homes is a stunning beachscape. The setting sun silhouettes scores of ships run aground, groaning as their rusting hulls shift on the sand. Look closer and you'll see thousands of workers moving like hermit crabs across the oil-slicked beach, dismantling the vessels sheet by metal sheet. They chant and smile while they carry the monstrous slabs of tonnage for as little as 13 an hour. "Singing makes us forget the pain," says a young laborer, his tanned body smeared with grease...
...thought I was an observant man. Evidently not. Someone else, passing the Hermit's house a few days ago, looked into his "new" car - the one I took to be his lover's car - and saw the Hermit's body slumped over the steering wheel. He had been dead for several days...
...tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound? It is said, oddly enough, that he liked to play golf. A neighbor saw him from time to time on a public course here in the county. The Hermit played alone...
...Once or twice last winter, I passed the Hermit's house and saw him rolling on his back in the snow. The first time, I thought he was having a seizure. But it wasn't that. As I was about to run to his aid, I saw he was having a private frisk, as if he were trying to remember how to make snow angels...