Dear L, In 1934, Richard Byrd spent an Antarctic Winter, alone in his cabin near the South Pole in complete darkness. Other than almost dying from carbon monoxide poisoning and constant peril of freezing to death, he lived and returned to tell the story of extreme isolation. In 1942 / 1943,
Dear L, In the Coen brother’s movie “A Serious Man” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Serious_Man], there’s a scene where a Rabbi talks about how Hashem talks to people in subtle and interesting ways, for example through a man's teeth. Thanks to Coen brother’
Dear L, Once for a couple of years, I worked from home as a consultant with a team in San Francisco while living in India. I was getting off work after midnight, every night. Usually, after work I would fire up my playstation; The world would be dark and sleeping.
> “I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.” - Roy Batty
I was awake, but my eyes didn’t want to open, almost as if cobwebs were holding my eyelids together. I wanted to roll back into the comfort of senselessness, I wanted to roam inside random dreams that were wacky enough to almost make me laugh.