Perhaps the writer is a fan of Grothendieck who did almost exactly this - lived in a remote village in the Pyrenees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gro

Perhaps the writer is a fan of Grothendieck who did almost exactly this - lived in a remote village in the Pyrenees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck#Retirement_into_reclusion_and_death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck#Retirem... "Local villagers helped sustain him with a more varied diet after he tried to live on a staple of dandelion soup." - like most people would.