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proof that leaving the party early was always the power move
means A hermit is a person who lives in solitude, withdrawn from society, often for religious or contemplative reasons.
from From the Greek 'erēmitēs,' meaning 'of the desert,' built on 'erēmos'—a lonely, deserted, empty place. It traveled through Latin 'eremita' and into Old French before settling into English. The word carries its origin story in its bones: the earliest Christian hermits literally fled to the deserts of Egypt and Syria to live alone with God, so the very name means 'one who goes to the wilderness.'
- holy origins
- early Christian hermits fled to Egyptian deserts to find God
- crab impostor
- hermit crabs aren't crabs and borrow empty shells
- paid recluses
- 18th-century estates hired ornamental hermits to lurk in gardens
- word root
- from Greek eremos, meaning desert or solitary
- shell upgrades
- crabs line up by size to swap homes simultaneously
saint simeon stylites — lived atop a pillar in syria for 37 years starting 423 ad
einsiedeln hermitage — swiss monastery founded 934 ad where hermit meinrad lived in isolation
thomas merton — american monk who lived as hermit at gethsemani abbey in kentucky from 1941-1968