Some good Hermits (or near hermits)

* The Sandwich Maker- both Arthur Dent and a Hermit, therefore very cool
* St Paul the Hermit (he lived until he was 113)
* St Kevin (brilliant misogynist madman in tree)
* Jeremy Bentham (known as the Hermit of Queen's Square)
* The Hermit of Grub Street, whose brother tried to kill him so he retired to his room for 44 years.
* St Inigo, who was brilliant and monastic and willing to stop being an hermit for a bit.
* Salinger, who is pretty much an hermit
* I can make an argument for Maximilien during one of the long periods of illness
* Stanislawa
* Montesquieu (who had a castle, and an almost literal ivory tower)

Left off that list (a top ten but not in order, suggestions of order would be appreciated) were St Bridget, an awful lot of other Saints, Demosthenes, Euripides at points, the random people in the Library of Alexandria (whom one suspects were almost hermits) and many others. Oh, and apocryphal Cornish Hermit. And probably one of my cousins.

All of which makes being an hermit seem fun.

Quiz

Ecce!

Disorder	Rating
Paranoid:	High
Schizoid:	High
Schizotypal:	High
Antisocial:	Moderate
Borderline:	Moderate
Histrionic:	Moderate
Narcissistic:	High
Avoidant:	High
Dependent:	Moderate
Obsessive-Compulsive:	High
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