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...agonizing self-consciousness. As a result he buried himself deeply in his work and in his reading. Often in the letters of the period he would write of a profound loneliness: "Even the solitude of a desert is companionship when compared to the loneliness of a city. The modern hermit carries all within him--his retreat is the populous wilderness of this world...
Every few years, it seems, somebody wandering in a deep forest comes across a bearded old hermit who asks whether Prohibition was ever repealed or whether William Jennings Bryan ever got elected President of the U.S. Last week the House Un-American Activities Committee, investigating Communist infiltration in the entertainment industry, flushed a covey of even odder birds. They were hermitically behind the times, but they had been living in high-rent Manhattan apartments rather than wilderness caves. There was not a single white beard or coonskin cap among them: they were well-dressed, prosperous and seemingly very...
Friedrich Nietzsche was a pale, crabby hermit who sat in a cheap Swiss boarding house peering beyond good and evil and demanding, at the top of his apocalyptic voice, the rearing of a daemonically driven breed of superman. Just when the world began to get wind of his prophetic fulminations, he went mad. For the last tragic eleven years of his life, he was a myth-and so he has remained. Out of that myth Hitler's propaganda made him the philosopher of Naziism in World...
Your Jan. 27 article on chiropody-podiatry must have been authored by a 90-year-old hermit. No one would consider calling a chiropodist-podiatrist a "corn cutter" any more than they would consider calling Dr. Jonas Salk a "pill pusher...
...laughed in a small, superior way. "What do you think--he's a hermit or something...