![]() ![]() ![]() It is a similar act of will that each of us employs to unsee the world that Knight discovered, even though it’s only a few feet in front of our faces. This separation is maintained via conscious acts of will by the cities’ citizens, who 'unsee' anything that happens in the other city. Reading The Stranger in the Woods, one is reminded of China Miéville’s sci-fi police procedural, The City and the City, in which two neighboring cities, Bes?el and Ul Qoma, overlap one on top of the other, even though they remain completely separate entities. Among the more fascinating aspects of his story is just how close he was able to live near civilization, without ever being seen. But Finkel’s book is also about what we want from hermits-why we’re endlessly fascinated by them, and why we’re just as often frustrated by them. The Stranger in the Woods is partly about what it means to be a hermit: Tactically, practically, psychologically. ![]()
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