08-04-2020, 06:22 PM
(08-04-2020, 04:57 PM)Nately120 Wrote: When I find someone who NEVER leaves his/her house I'll have to come up with a name for it. How many people do you know who haven't left their houses in the past 4 months?
Waldens Pond II: Hermit 2 Furious.
A story with a modern twist on Thoreau's classic. Our new protagonist lives a life a solitude in modern day America. For 6 LONG months he's forced to live like a hermit.
His only contact with the outside world is when he goes to the park, and sees passerbys from a distance of 6 feet or more. Or when goes through the Mcdonalds drive-thru, or when he gazes upon others in their cocoons of prisons known as automobiles. Or when he waves at his neighbors while on a leisurely walk.
Besides these contactless interactions, he's left to his own devices. Those devices are literal. Computer, TV, Smart Phone, Xbox, Alexa. He only has a near unlimited catalog of music at the touch of a finger, he only has Netflix, Hulu, and Basic Cable to pass the time. He only has pretty much all of recorded human history just a google search away.
Did he choose this life of solitude? No, it was thrust upon him. Month after month, he's faced with the reality that he is alone. When will it end? 6 months? 8 months? A YEAR?!???
This is the story of one man whose life was turn upside down, and how his perception of the world around him is shaped and reshaped living during Covid-19.
