True. He did live in social isolation though. And the theft fits with the cat burgler/jewel thief stories, perennially popular here on "hacker" news. Where "hac

True. He did live in social isolation though. And the theft fits with the cat burgler/jewel thief stories, perennially popular here on "hacker" news. Where "hacker" doesn't mean hacking into systems, but it does mean not doing things in the conventional manner. In a previous story on him, there was some nice phrasing on his freedom, moon and season: > Chris became surprisingly introspective. "I did examine myself," he said. "Solitude did increase my perception. But here’s the tricky thing—when I applied my increased perception to myself, I lost my identity. With no audience, no one to perform for, I was just there. There was no need to define myself; I became irrelevant. The moon was the minute hand, the seasons the hour hand. I didn’t even have a name. I never felt lonely. To put it romantically: I was completely free." http://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit?printable=true http://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit?printable=true