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...spent most of the hike down the rim of Qaddisha Valley worrying not so much what would happen if I slipped and fell down the mountain gorge, but about the social protocols of visiting with a hermit. After all, hermits, by definition have chosen solitude over company - particularly strangers popping in uninvited. But Our Lady of Hawka Monastery, a 13th century shrine built into the side of the valley's red sandstone cliffs and one of the region's last functioning hermitages, is considered something of a national treasure in Lebanon. Even if phoning ahead to arrange an audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hanging with the Hermit | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

...some key moment in his contemplation of divine creation? Or more likely, what if the reason he renounced a life of earthly pleasures was to get away from the likes of foreign journalists for whom he is a fascinating curiosity? Surely someone who chooses the life of a hermit has what those of us who work in the urban corporate economy might call "people issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hanging with the Hermit | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

...Despite my trepidation, it turns out that the only ritual required in requesting an audience with the hermit is a knock on the door. Father Dario emerges from his quarters wearing a black cowl and a warm smile. He explains that although he has many visitors - some of whom wake him in the middle of the night, or use his pencils to graffiti their names on the walls of his cell - all are welcome. It is the duty of Christian hermits, he explained, to serve both God and humanity through prayer and penitence, and that apparently includes suffering fools gladly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hanging with the Hermit | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

...Indeed, hermitism in the Catholic Church and its eastern branches is not some kind of a primal escape to nature and freedom, but a role defined by canonical law and subject to the discipline and hierarchy of the Church. To become a hermit, one first has to be either a member of a monastic order, or to be consecrated by a bishop. Father Dario had been a Catholic priest living in Florida and making $200 an hour working as a psychologist when God told him to give up his worldly possessions and take on the contemplative life. But the Word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hanging with the Hermit | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

...involved throws me all the time. People like Proust and Melville please me. They don't waste words." He denounced and avoided the critical cult of personality; "I made it a point never to use the word I in an essay, an article," he told Ollman. Though hardly a hermit, he avoided the community of critics and the proximity of the people he wrote about. "Anonymity and coolness... writing film-centered criticism rather than self-centered criticism," was one of the seven "Critical Precepts" that he and Patricia Patterson - Manny's intimate collaborator in his writing, arting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manny Farber: Termite of Genius | 8/26/2008 | See Source »

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