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 Some days, it makes so much sense why so many of the great poets and stoics and artists lived in solitude.  
 I am going to be controversial here, since there are those that use solitude to recharge and there are those who use solitude to "run away"
from what they do.... 
 I don't think that's controversial. For some solitude is slavery, for others a quaint vacation. For the ever-expanding mind, it is absolute freedom.  
 when you have these things inside your brain-womb it hurts not to give them a way out and people just find all the reasons in the world to divert you from your magnum opus 
 I have to wonder how much of what is created in the modern world will prove to be timeless.  
 i think computer science and the electric universe physics stuff are awesome but most modernism is decay