The Lighthouse Keeper and the Serbian Cabin
What happens to a mind in true isolation — and why does one Serbian woman with a shortwave radio confound everything we think we know about hermits? This episode traces the word back to the Desert Fathers of third-century Egypt, through the walled-in anchorites of the medieval church, to Christopher Knight's twenty-seven silent years in the Maine woods and the Lykov family's four decades in the Siberian taiga. Along the way: why nobody can actually count how many hermits exist, what the state does when a range trooper finds someone living where the map shows nothing, and the crucial…
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