An interesting item from my bookmarks

[NickM]

I've been reorganising some of my bookmarks (there are thousands of them) to pass the time today. In the process I've re-read a few interesting things, including this story about - well, you tell me what it's about. Is it genius, alienation, selfishness? Or a mixture of them all?

http://www.westleyfarm.co.uk/history.htm

Whatever you think of the people described, such talent and focus is pretty inspiring...

 

[Globalti]

Amazing and completely single-minded.

I have old college friends who lived in a wooden sailing boat at Woodbridge while we restored the boat around them. They had a baby and soon after they sailed across the Atlantic to start a new life in Antigua, where they live now. Their three kids are all at uni now.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

But Lonely?

 

[Globalti]

My Antigua friends? Not at all, life is a busy social whirl for them, not to mention the visitors from UK seeking sunshine.

They live in a bungalow in a popular district and sadly the lovely boat was wrecked in a hurricane and ended her days rotting in a mangrove swamp.

 

[NickM]

But Lonely?

Some people (or couples) are sufficiently self-contained that loneliness simply doesn't seem to affect them. I'm not sure whether to envy them or not.

Here's a follow-up which tells a little more about how they live now:

http://www.pvmirror.com/fromthenorthshore/march1603ing.html

Their astonishing competence reminds me of somebody I became aware of at about the same time, the artist Kit Williams - another person who seemed able to turn his hands and mind to any craft, with spectacular results:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Williams

 

[GaryA]

I find this fascinating; Fergus Drennan the Guy who tried and nearly succeeded in living on wild food for a whole year- respect

http://www.wildmanwildfood.com/

 

[Globalti]

Some people (or couples) are sufficiently self-contained that loneliness simply doesn't seem to affect them. I'm not sure whether to envy them or not.

Here's a follow-up which tells a little more about how they live now:

http://www.pvmirror.com/fromthenorthshore/march1603ing.html

Their astonishing competence reminds me of somebody I became aware of at about the same time, the artist Kit Williams - another person who seemed able to turn his hands and mind to any craft, with spectacular results:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Williams

Oh yes, thanks for reminding me about Masquerade and all that. No thanks though for leading me to this: http://www.bunnyears.net/kitwilliams/faq.html where I have just read that the bloke who found the hare actually cheated, with the help of Kit Williams's ex-girlfriend. How disappointing.