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He may have lived in an uninhabited place but it seems, considering the amount and variety of stuff he stole, his mind was almost constantly inhabited by the mo

He may have lived in an uninhabited place but it seems, considering the amount and variety of stuff he stole, his mind was almost constantly inhabited by the modern world.

PhasmaFelis 12y ago
Doesn't sound like either the amount or the variety was exceptional, given that he was living off of what he stole. Food, clothes, books seems to be the bulk of it; I doubt he had to replace that tent very often, for example.
- personlurking 12y ago
  Perhaps exceptional for hermit standards (though I admit I don't rightly know what those would be). "He'd fled the modern world only to live off the fat of it." Among the items: metal bedframe, toilet paper and hand sanitizer, laundry detergent and shampoo, Coleman two-burner stove connected to propane tanks, deodorant, disposable razors, flashlights, snow boots, spices, mousetraps, spray paint, and electrical tape, pillows, three different types of thermometers (digital, mercury, spring-loaded), watches, radios and earphones (conservative talk radio, Everybody Loves Raymond, Who, AC/DC, Judas Priest, and Lynyrd Skynyrd), handheld video games (Pokémon, Tetris, Dig Dug), hundreds of books and magazines.
  - j1o1h1n 12y ago
    There have been many hermits to compare him with but my favourite is Simeon Stylites who spent 47 years on a pillar. ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites
    - stef25 12y ago
      Mount Athos in Greece (which you can visit if you're male) still has "hermitages" of Orthodox priests. Google turns up a few nice images. See also this short article http://www.robertsemeniuk.com/mount_athos.html http://www.robertsemeniuk.com/mount_athos.html
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  - PhasmaFelis 12y ago
    Yeah, it looks like I somehow missed the bit that cataloged his possessions.
  - hyp0 12y ago
    He fled people, not the world.
    - smacktoward 12y ago
      But you can't get the one without the other. Nature does not produce disposable razors and Coleman stoves; people do.
dotrob 12y ago
I'd love to read his account of how he interpreted the increasingly digital and electronic items he encountered during his burglaries: flat screen TVs; computers; ever smaller radios, flashlights, calculators; thermostats; microwave ovens; clocks. He had some education in electronics, so it seems he must have spent some time, even a little bit, reflecting on the technological changes he witnesses as an outside observer.

He may have lived in an uninhabited place but it seems, considering the amount and variety of stuff he stole, his mind was almost constantly inhabited by the modern world.

PhasmaFelis 12y ago

Doesn't sound like either the amount or the variety was exceptional, given that he was living off of what he stole. Food, clothes, books seems to be the bulk of it; I doubt he had to replace that tent very often, for example.

personlurking 12y ago
Perhaps exceptional for hermit standards (though I admit I don't rightly know what those would be). "He'd fled the modern world only to live off the fat of it." Among the items: metal bedframe, toilet paper and hand sanitizer, laundry detergent and shampoo, Coleman two-burner stove connected to propane tanks, deodorant, disposable razors, flashlights, snow boots, spices, mousetraps, spray paint, and electrical tape, pillows, three different types of thermometers (digital, mercury, spring-loaded), watches, radios and earphones (conservative talk radio, Everybody Loves Raymond, Who, AC/DC, Judas Priest, and Lynyrd Skynyrd), handheld video games (Pokémon, Tetris, Dig Dug), hundreds of books and magazines.
- j1o1h1n 12y ago
  There have been many hermits to compare him with but my favourite is Simeon Stylites who spent 47 years on a pillar. ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites
  - stef25 12y ago
    Mount Athos in Greece (which you can visit if you're male) still has "hermitages" of Orthodox priests. Google turns up a few nice images. See also this short article http://www.robertsemeniuk.com/mount_athos.html http://www.robertsemeniuk.com/mount_athos.html
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- PhasmaFelis 12y ago
  Yeah, it looks like I somehow missed the bit that cataloged his possessions.
- hyp0 12y ago
  He fled people, not the world.
  - smacktoward 12y ago
    But you can't get the one without the other. Nature does not produce disposable razors and Coleman stoves; people do.

dotrob 12y ago

I'd love to read his account of how he interpreted the increasingly digital and electronic items he encountered during his burglaries: flat screen TVs; computers; ever smaller radios, flashlights, calculators; thermostats; microwave ovens; clocks. He had some education in electronics, so it seems he must have spent some time, even a little bit, reflecting on the technological changes he witnesses as an outside observer.