I could say there’s a wee bit of hermit in me but I would be telling an
untruth, for the fact is there’s a lot of hermit in me.
To paraphrase Christ, “render unto society the things that are
societal, and to yourself the things that are yours”.
There was a period in my adult life, eleven years in total, when I
went without a telephone. I was not in jail, far from it, neither
the corrective jail which is prison, nor the collective jail
which is society.
To this day, if a phone never rang in my presence I would not
take it amiss.
Islander