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...Cheeser, Ishmael-like religious fanatic; Kelly, the Brother of the Universal Spirit; Col. Harrison, who ran a New Jerusalem for tramps, partly because he felt like it, partly to irritate his wife; Lily, a high-class harlot, who became Jack's idealized light-o'-love; the London hermit who lived in a vacant lot and ate garbage, a onetime chartered accountant who had left wife and job because he could not stand the feeling of insecurity both gave him. Starving in London put a temporary quietus on Jack's yearning for adventure; when he had had enough...
...more than 400 saints: Simeon Stylites, who lived 38 years on a pillar, at first 9 ft., at last 60 ft. high. Sebastian, who was shot full of arrows but (according to Author Wescott's account) recovered and was beaten to death. Gothard, absent-minded Alpine hermit, hung his coat on a sunbeam; the obliging beam waited till the coat was removed, then hurried after the setting sun. When Agnes of Monte Pulciano prayed, roses and lilies fell from heaven, "because she never did it mechanically." Philip Neri, disciple of Savonarola, said: "Despise the world; despise yourself; and despise...
...published 20 books of short stories and three novels, a playwright friend persuaded him to dramatize one of his stories into a one-act play. With Six Characters in Search of an Author (produced in Rome in 1921) Pirandello leaped into the limelight. He gave up teaching; from a hermit-like professor he soon became a fashionable and active author-manager, rushing to openings by airplane...
...lived his life on a hermit plan...
...noon, just before the meet, the Mountaineering Club and its guests will held a house-warming party to celebrate the completion of its new long house, known as Spur Cabin. The cabin is located half a mile below Hermit Lake at an elevation of 3800 feet. All the building materials were carried up the mountain from Pinkham Notch by members of the club, who estimate that they have packed about 2500 pounds on their backs since last October...