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the deliberate art of disappearing before anyone notices you were there.
means The state of being kept away or apart from other people, whether by choice or circumstance.
from From Latin 'secludere,' to shut off or shut apart — built from 'se-' (apart, away) and 'claudere' (to close or shut), the same root that gives us 'close,' 'include,' and 'cloister.' The image baked in is literal: a door closed with you on the far side of it, the world latched out.
- prison paradox
- Used as both monk's reward and inmate's punishment
- brain effect
- Total isolation can trigger vivid hallucinations within days
- hermit demand
- 18th-century estates hired ornamental hermits to lurk decoratively
- word root
- From Latin secludere, meaning to shut off
thomas merton's hermitage — catholic monk lived in isolated cabin at abbey of gethsemani, kentucky from 1965-1968
cape horn lighthouse keeper — carlos bories tended the isolated lighthouse on southernmost tip of south america, 1970s-1980s
kitava island study — swedish researcher staffan lindeberg lived among isolated papua new guinea islanders with no western disease, 1970s