Is becoming a recluse a rational response to an irrational world, or a symptom of mental illness?Do you have to be a misanthrope, or can you just want to be left alone? Are the two different?
Do you have to be rich, self-indulgent? Is there a how-to manual?
I have to admit the idea is appealing to me. I'd have to be able to get to the library, and for a while I'd still like the Sunday New York Times delivered, as well as a periodic lunch or dinner out. Other than that I think it might be OK, as long as UPS stays in business. Wouldn't even need servants.
I'd tend the garden, catch up on my reading, invent labor saving devices, play with Ted, wash the car. Deep down I believe this could be the perfect life for me. I don't even think Mrs T would care, as long as I didn't make her do it too. She wouldn't last 15 minutes.
I've been reading too much Nero Wolfe again, can you tell?
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