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PoindexterOglethorpe

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3. The Warlow Experiment

Reply to hermetic (Original post)

Mon Dec 9, 2019, 02:36 PM

Dec 2019

by Alix Nathan.

In 1793 offers 50 pounds a year to a man who will agree to live in underground accommodations in the cellar of his house in the Welsh Marches. Food and appropriate comforts will be provided, but the man is to otherwise be completely cut off and isolated from other humans. Only one man takes him up on it. I'm about 2/3 of the way through and it's quite fascinating,

Amazingly enough, it's based on a real experiment that actually took place at the time. The author found a reference to it when the man was in the fourth year of isolation, but could never find any follow up. So she wrote her own version.

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