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by PhantomGremlin 3379 days ago
This is an adapted excerpt from a recently published book. It's about Christopher Knight, who was a hermit in Maine between 1986 and 2013.

Spoiler alert: He survived by committing about 1,000 burglaries of the 100 cabins in the area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Thomas_Knight

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The bit that really stood out for me: """ He was never once bored. He wasn’t sure, he said, that he even understood the concept of boredom. """

Almost seems (too? as a consequence?) that he was lacking a type of curiosity, whether as an existing character trait, or something that developed from having to periodically use all his wiles to obtain the means of survival when surveilling the cabins.