The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.

Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004), American writer

Otherwise known as the room in a box, it provides a fully insulated, pre-wired comfortable space for the recluse who needs a quiet space away from the main house.

The 9′x13′ prefabricated structure uses a proprietary clamping system to expedite installation.

Optional furnishings and a solar-powered option are also available. $29,500+

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The Introvert is supported from within, creating a fascinating outward impression of floating.

Available in Walnut, White Oak, High-Gloss White Lacquer, and Mediterranean Blue. By one&co

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I know I have within myself… a side of solitude. I think people who know me can see, but people who just meet me can’t because I’m generally very fun and gregarious. But I love to spend a lot of time on my own. I can seriously go into my own head and often love to let myself travel where I don’t know where I’m going.

The Anechoic Chamber at Orfield Laboratories Inc., Minnesota, is officially the Quietest Place on Earth. How would it feel to experience negative 9.4 dB?

Silence is a truly rare thing. All reverberation is removed… all sounds that aren’t coming from your own body disappear. After a few moments in the anechoic chamber, you’ll begin to feel a touch jumpy. Hearing your heart beat, your blood pulse, the sound of your own ear buzzing and your body functioning like you’ve never heard before has a tendency to be a bit unnerving. And in complete silence, you lose all sense of space and surroundings. The absence of reflected sound and reverberation makes “feeling out” the room impossible.

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A room can be considered as a private sanctuary, the door being a physical and psychological boundary between interior and exterior life. The closed door provides an atmosphere of meditation, isolation, anonymity and also eroticism: intimacy and a feeling of confidence.

When closing the door the doorknob is pulled towards the inside of the room, prolonging the gesture of closing the door and making the doorknob disappear on the corridor side. The entry is truly locked because the door has transformed into a wall from the corridor side: it has become a guardian of anonymity, the keeper of a secret moment.

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A Beacon in Treacherous Waters

Bishop Rock is the smallest island in the world, and one of the most remote locations in the British Isles. Open to the full force of the Atlantic Ocean, the original lighthouse tower was swept away in 1850 and had to be rebuilt. The present building was completed in 1858.

In medieval times, criminals were rowed out to the island and left on the rock to die (with just a loaf of bread and a Bible).

The lighthouse was converted to automatic operation in 1991, and the lighthouse keepers departed the following year. Up to four visitors can stay there for one to three weeks.

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