In this thread I will narrate the life of Christopher Knight from his youth until his current age of 51. I intend to cover:
>his childhood and family
>his decision to escape society
>his 27 years living as a "hermit" in Maine
>his arrest and prosecution
>his views on society
>his life following his release from prison
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He was a thief
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On Knight's relationship with his family in his youth
>"As a young boy, when the lilacs bloomed, Chris would gather a bouquet and give them to his mother. "I like the door and the color, and it's one of the first flowers in spring. I remember thinking I'd found something new," he said. Otherwise there were few overt expressions of love. "We didn't feel the need to communicate everything all the time," Chris continued. "We're not emotionally bleeding all over each other. We're not touchy-feely. [...] In my family, the boys could not express feelings. We relied on unspoken understandings. It was the way it was."
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On Knight's parents
>"His parents were strict - early curfews, finish your homework, no junk food. One cousin, Kevin Nelson [...] used to bicycle over to the Knights' house carrying treats for the boys. "They would lower a string from a bedroom window, and they'd raise a bag of snacks," Nelson said. "I don't believe they ever had a soda pop."
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On Knight as a young man
>"People who knew Chris as a child called him "quiet" and "shy" and "nerdy", but no one detected any deeper malaise. "I didn't find him to be all that weird," said Jeff Young, who went to elementary school, junior high, and high school with Chris and often rode the bus with him. "He was a wicked smart kid, and he had a really good sense of humour"
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On Knight's school experience
>"At Lawrence High School [...] Chris felt "invisible". He attended no social events, played no sports, joined no clubs. He never went to a football game and he skipped the prom"
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On Knight learning survival skills in highschool
"During his senior year, Knight, like most Maine public school students, attended a course called Hunter Safety and Outdoor Skills. [...] "This is something that keeps replaying in my mind," said his teacher, Bruce Hillman. "I told every kid that if you in a survival situation, life or death, and you come upon a camp, it's okay to break in. This is accepted in Maine. [...] I was thinking of a survival situation lasting two or three days, nor twenty years."
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On Knight's disappearance
>"He did not tell anyone where he was going. "I had no one to tell," he said. "I didn't have any friends. I had no interest in my co-workers." He drove the Brat south. He was twenty years old. He ate fast food and stayed in cheap motels [...] and drove for days, until he found himself deep into Florida. [...] Eventually he turned around and headed north"
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On some reasons for his desire to escape society
>"Something happened to Chris on that drive, the first and only road trip of his life. He headed north, through Georgia and the Carolinas and Virginia, blessed with the invincibility of youth, buzzed by "the pleasure of driving," and an idea grew into a realization, then solidified into a resolve. All his life, he's been comfortable being alone. Interacting with others was so often frustrating. Every meeting with another person seemed like a collision. As he drove [...] he felt within himself some rumblings of fear and thrill, as if at the precipice of a radical leap"
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On his making the decision to leave society
>""I drove until I was nearly out of gas. I took a small road. Then a small road off that small road. Then a trail off that." He went as far into the wilderness as his vehicle [pic related] would take him/ He parked the car and put the keys on the center console. He had a tent and a backpack but no compass, no map. Without knowing where he was going, with no particular place in mind, he stepped into the trees and walked away."
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HURRY UP REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE MOOOOOOREEE
Yeah but he was a really cool one. I remember the days when I was happy being alone before Sup Forums convinced me I'm unhappy and defective.
I don't know why everyone finds this guy so interesting. If he'd lived entirely off the woods for 27 years that would be one thing, but he wasn't cut of from civilisation. The difference between him and everyone else isn't that he lived without support from anyone else, because he didn't - he just stole what other people would have to work for.
On Knight's family's reaction to his disappearance
>"Two of Knight's brothers, Joel and Timothy, visited him in jail, the only members of the family to do so. Chris didn't recognize them, he admitted; only Joel's laugh sounded familiar. The brothers said they'd often wondered what had happened to Chris. They had supposed he was dead but had never expressed this thought to their mother. They'd always wanted to give her hope that he was still alive. [...] His family apparently never contacted the police about Chris's disappearance. They did not file a missing person report. "They assumed I was off doing something on my own," said Chris. "Having an adventure. We Yankees, we see the world differently. "
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On Knight's experience during winter
>"He remained in his small nylon tent, he insists, and did not once in all those winters light a fire. Smoke might give his campsite away. Each autumn [...] he stockpiled food at his camp, then didn't leave for five or six months, until the snow had melted enough for him to walk through the forest without leaving prints."
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On Knight barely surviving winter
>"Some years, he made it clear, he barely survived the winter. [...] to get through difficult times, he tried meditating. "I didn't meditate every day, month, season in the woods. Just when death was near. Death in the form of too little food or too much cold for too long."
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On Knight's camp
>"Knight had recycled his old [magazines] as subflooring, creating a platform that was perfectly and also permitted decent drainage of rainwater. [...] The walls of his home, the police photos showed, were constructed of brown and green plastic tarps and large black garbage bags. These were all intricately overlaid, like roof tiles, anchored in place by guylines [...] It was an aesthetically pleasing creation, almost churchlike in appearance, that blended into the color pallet of the forest."
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On Knight's criminal ability
>"The crime scenes themselves were so clean that the authorities offered their begrudging respect. "The level of discipline he showed while he broke into houses," said Hughes, "is beyond what any of us can remotely imagine - the legwork, the reconnaissance, the talent with locks, his ability to get in and out without being detected. [...] The hermit, many officers felt, was a master thief. It was as if he were showing off, picking locks yet stealing little, playing a strange sort of game."
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On Knight's record-breaking crime spree
>"To commit a thousand break-ins before getting caught, a world-class streak, requires precision and patience and daring and luck. [...] His surveillance was clinical, informational, mathematical. [...] He watched the families move about and knew when he could steal."
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On Knight's survival instincts
>""He set his tent east-west," said Hughes, bobbing his head in reluctant approval. "That wasn't an accident. That's based on survival training. His site is not on top of a hill, not in a valley. It's halfway between. He's following the principles of Sun Tzu, in 'The Art of War'"
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On local residents communicating with Knight
>"One summer, a family had an idea. They taped a pen on a string to their front door along with a handwritten note: "Please don't break in. Tell me what you need and I'll leave it out for you." This sparked a small fad, and soon a half dozen cabins had notes fluttering from their doors. Other residents hung shopping bags of books on their doorknobs, like donations to a school fund-raiser. There was no reply to the notes; none of the shopping bags were touched. The break-ins continued"
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On the scale of Knight's crimes
>"At a North Pond home owners' meeting in 2004, nearly fifteen years into the mystery, the hundred people present were asked who had suffered break-ins. At least seventy-five raised their hands."
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Cool as fuck. New to me
whoo wana go live innawoods wit me?
>They did not file a missing person report
lol they really didnt care
no wonder he went and became a crazy woods person
Bump for knowledge.
I know it's strange but GQ actually had a p. good piece on him:
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Why is the photo gone?
On The Lady of the Woods
>"He says that he's seen the Lady of the Woods before, during a very bad winter. [...] He was in his bed, in his tend, starving, freezing, dying. The Lady appeared. She was wearing a hooded sweater, a feminine Grim Reaper. She lifted her eyebrow and lowered her hood. She asked if he was doing with her or staying. He says he's aware, on an intellectual level, that it was just some fevered, desperate hallucination, but he's not entirely sure."
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On Knight's social contact
>"sometime in the 1990s, he encountered a hiker while walking in the woods. "What did you say?" asks Vince. "I said, 'Hi'," Knight replies. Other than that single syllable, he insists, he had not spoken with or touched another human being, until this evening, for twenty-seven years".
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On Knight as a notable hermit
>"His seclusion was not pure, he was a thief, but he persisted for twenty-seven years while speaking a total of one word and never touching anyone else. Christopher Knight, you could argue, is the most solitary known person in all of human history."
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Bumping for interest.
This guy is interesting. Got his book on reserve at the library. 42nd in line so I am not the only interested party.
OP here. Not sure what you mean sorry. Photo looks fine to me.
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On Knight's love of reading
>"His chief form of entertainment was reading. [...] The life inside a book always felt welcoming to Knight. It pressed no demands on him, while the world of actual human interactions was so complex. [...] His engagement with the written word might have been the closest he could come to genuine human encounters. "
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On Knight's reading habits
>"Knight clearly loved to read. He stole [...] a lot of science fiction and spy novels and best sellers and even Harlequin romances - whatever was available in the cabins of North Pond - but one person also lost a finance textbook, a scholarly World War II tome, and James Joyce's 'Ulysses'. During his arrest, Knight mentioned his admiration for Daniel Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe'. [...] Knight was now reading 'Gulliver's Travels' in jail.""
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On further books Knight enjoyed
>"He liked Shakespeare, 'Julius Caesar' especially, that litany of betrayal and violence. He marvelled at the poetry of Emily Dickinson, sensing her kindred spirit. [...] If he were forced to select a favorite book, it might be 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich', by William Shirer. [...] Knight's disdain for Thoreau was bottomless - "he had not deep insight into nature" - but Ralph Waldo Emerson was acceptable. "People are to be taken in very small doses," wrote Emerson. [...] Knight read the 'Tao Te Ching' and felt a deep-rooted connection to the verses. [...] Robert Frost received a thumbs-down [...] and Knight said that when he ran out of toilet paper, he sometimes tore pages from John Grisham novels. He mentioned that he didn't like Jack Kerouac either, but this wasn't quite true. "I don't like people like Jack Kerouac," he clarified."
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Kek, never thought I'd see the North Pond Hermit mentioned on here. Keep 'em coming, OP.
Despite being a Mainer myself, I haven't really looked into his backstory much at all until now.
These kind of threads are the best. Thanks OP.
what a waste of talent who could have trained people to be hermit master thieves and founded the secret societ of hermit master thievew
LET HIM GO REEEEEEEEEE
DIdn't he also steal a gameboy and pokemon red version?
On Knight's literary criticism
>"Knight was shy about everything, it seemed, except literary criticism. He wrote that he felt "rather lukewarm" about Ernest Hemingway. He was partial to history and biography, he said, thought he was presently interested in Rudyard Kipling, preferably his "lesser known works.""
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On Knight's opinion of James Joyce
>"He pilfered a copy of 'Ulysses', but it was possible the one book he did not finish. "What's the point of it? I suspect it was a bit of a joke by Joyce. He just kept his mouth shut as people read into it more than there was. Pseudo-intellectuals love to drop the name 'Ulysses' as their favorite book. I refused to be intellectually bullied into finishing it.""
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On Knight's appreciation for Dostoevsky
>"There was one novel above all others, Knight said, that sparked in him the rare and unnerving sensation that the writer was reaching through time and speaking directly to him: Dostoevsky's 'Notes from the Underground'. "I recognize myself in the main character," he said, referring to the angry and misanthropic narrator, who has lived apart from all others for about twenty years."
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He wasn't self sustaining in that he took things from other people but he didn't have any direct contact with people. That is quite unique.
On Knight's musical tastes
>"Knight stole portable radios and earbuds and tuned in daily [...] he got hooked on classical music - Brahms and Tchaikovsky, yes; Bach, no. "Bach is too pristine," he said. Bliss for him was Tchaikovsky's 'The Queen of Spades'. But his undying passion was classic rock: the Who, AC/DC, Judas Priest, Lez Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and, above all, Lynyrd Skynyrd."
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On Knight's TV preferences
>"On one raid he stole a Panasonic black-and-white five-inch-diagonal television. [...] He also carried off an antenna and hid it high in his treetops. He said everything shown on PBS was "carefully crafted for liberal baby boomers with college degrees," [...] He burned through all his batteries after September 11, 2001, and never watched television again. [...] after he stole a radio that received television audio signals, he switched to listening to TV stations on the radio [...] 'Seinfeld' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond' were his television-on-the-radio favorites."
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On Knight's love of video games
>"He liked handheld video games. His rule for stealing them was that they had to appear outdated; he didn't want to take a kid's new one. [...] He enjoyed Pokemon, Tetris, and Dig Dug. "I like games that require thought and strategy. No shoot-'em-ups. No mindless repetitive motion.""
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On Knight's appreciation for pornography
>"He acknowledged [...] that a couple of cabins were enticing because of their subscriptions to 'Playboy'. He was curious. He was only twenty years old when he disappeared, and had never been out on a date."
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He's a hikikomori that went all the way.
Camping and stealing is more interesting than staying in a bedroom for years.
>Knight's appreciation for Dostoevsky
These threads are great
you're great
On Knight's health
>"The price of sociability is sometimes our health. Knight quarantined himself from the human race and thus avoided our biohazards. He stayed phenomenally healthy. Thought he suffered deeply at times, he insists he never once had a medical emergency, or a serious illness, or a bad accident, or even a cold."
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On Knight's diet
>"his culinary preferences never progressed beyond the sugar-and-processed-food palate of a teenager. "'Cooking' is too kind a word for what I did," he said. A staple meal was macaroni and cheese. Dozens of mac-and-cheese boxes were buried between the rocks, along with several empty spice-bottles - black pepper, garlic powder, hot sauce, blackened seasoning. [...] Also in his dump was a flattened thirty-ounce container from cheddar-flavored Goldfish crackers, a a five-pound tub from Marshamallow Fluff, and a box that had held sixteen Drake's Devil Dogs."
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Didn't know the book had come out. In honor of Knight I think we should all pirate it.
(((Finkelsteinberger)))
Every single time.
On Knight's opinion of urban and rural life
>"Knight had a strong distaste for big cities, filled with helpless intellectuals, people with multiple degrees who couldn't change a car's oil. But, he added, it wasn't as if rural areas were Valhalla. "Don't glorify the country," he said, then tossed off a line from the first chapter of 'The Communist Manifesto' about escaping "the idiocy of rural life."
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On Knight's opinion of modern life
>"He was confounded by the idea that passing the prime of your life in a cubicle, spending hours a day at a computer, in exchange for money, was considered acceptable, but relaxing in a tent in the woods was disturbed. Observing the trees was indolent; cutting them down was enterprising. [...] Knight insisted that his escape should not be interpreted as a critique of modern life. "I wasn't consciously judging society or myself, I just chose a different path." Yet he'd seen enough of the world [...] to be repulsed by the quantity of stuff people bought while the planet was casually poisoned, everyone hypnotized into apathy by "a bunch of candy-colored fluff""
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On Knight's love of solitude
>"What I miss most in the woods," Knight said, "is somewhere in between quiet and solitude. What I miss most is stillness". [...] Solitude bestows and increase in something valuable. I can't dismiss the idea. Solitude increases my perception. There was no audience, no one to perform for. There was no need to define myself. I became irrelevant. [...] My desires dropped away. I didn't long for anything. I didn't even have a name. To put it romantically, I was completely free."
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Oh I love these threads! Thanks again user!
If he had done it without stealing, no one would have cared.
this guy was literally Sup Forums, Sup Forums and /out/ combined
Oh shit I love these threads
OP you're making Sup Forums great again one post at a time
OP here. Apologies if I skip some details, such as how he was arrested. In short, a local police officer set up a sensor alarm to be triggered when someone broke into the Pine Tree Camp (pic related) and that's how he was caught mid-burglary.
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On Knight feeling like a freak
>"One book that Knight [...] kept [...] with him in his tent - was 'Very Special People', a collection of brief biographies of human oddities: the Elephant Man [...] and hundreds of sideshow performers. Knight himself often felt that he was something of a circus freak, at least on the inside. "If you're born a human oddity," says the introductory chapter of 'Very Special People', "every day of your life, starting in infancy, you are made aware that you are not as others are. [...] You may hide from the world," advises the book, "to avoid the punishment it inflicts on those who differ from the rest in mind or body."
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On Knight's opinion of boredom
>"He was never once bored. He wasn't sure, he said, that he even understood the concept of boredom. It applied only to people who felt they had to be doing something all the time, which from what he'd observed was most people"
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On one officer's reaction to Knight's arrest
>"Everything in my gut wanted to hate this guy," said Hughes. "I'm a typical stubborn jarhead. He stole food from a camp for disabled people. But I can't hate him. You could work in law enforcement a hundred years and never come across anyone like this."
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Found it. No shekels for Finkel, (((but thanks for writing it.)))
...
now I feel sad
On Knight's fondness for a mushroom in his camp
>"His closest companion may have been a mushroom. [...] this particular one, a shelf mushroom, jutted at knee height from the trunk of the largest hemlock in Knight's camp. He began observing the mushroom when its cap was no bigger than a watch face. It grew unhurriedly, wearing a Santa's hat of snow all winter, and eventually, after decades, expanded to the size of a dinner plate, striated with black and gray bands. The mushroom meant something to him; one of the few concerns Knight had after his arrest was that the police officers who'd tromped through his camp had knocked it down. When he learned that the mushroom was still there, he was pleased."
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On Knight's fame
>"Hundreds of journalists, across the United States and the world, attempted to contact him. The New York Times compared him to Boo Radley, the recluse in To Kill a Mockingbird. TV talk shows solicited his presence. A documentary film team arrived in town. [...] The Kennebec County district attorney, Maeghan Maloney, said that Knight [...] had become "the most famous person in the state of Maine."
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On Knight's reaction to his fame
>"Knight himself, the hub of the commotion, resumed his silence. He did not issue a single word publicly. He accepted no offers - no bail, no wife, no poem, no cash. The five hundred or so dollars sent to him were placed in a restitution fund for victims of his thefts."
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>"At Lawrence High School [...] Chris felt "invisible". He attended no social events, played no sports, joined no clubs. He never went to a football game and he skipped the prom"
literally me.
>On Knight's fondness for a mushroom in his camp
I really hope I'm projecting but I really sympathize with this guy
On Knight's relationship with other inmates
>"Many of the people he attempted to talk with simply nodded and smiled and thought him "stupid or crazy." Or they just stared at him unabashedly, as if he were some oddity on display. [...] He felt tormented by jail, locked in his case with another inmate. [...] Several more times, he attempted to converse with other inmates. [...] "You talk like a book," one inmate teased him. The guards and jail authorities, Knight noted, approached him with "pity and a small smile.""
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On Knight's experience in prison
>"The conditions in jail - the handcuffs, the noise, the filth, the crowding - mangled his senses. [...] "Bedlam" is how he referred to the place. It never got dark in jail' at eleven p.m., the lights merely became a little duller. "I suspect," he noted, "more damage has been done to my sanity in jail, in months; than years, decades, in the woods"
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On Knight's desire for solitary confinement
>"After his arrest and incarceration, Knight craved solitary confinement. "I have a hope, wish, fantasy of a cell of my own," he wrote in one of his letters. "And to think this would be considered punishment. It is to laugh."
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>not liking Bach
>I really sympathize with this guy
Everyone does. That's what makes him so interesting.
bampin..i used to leave food out for him because he robbed me once in the summer
holy shit..hes right though..humans werent meant to live in this kind of society
On Knight's love of silence
>"Soon he essentially stopped talking. "I am retreating into silence as a defensive mode," he mentioned. [...] "I am surprised," he wrote, "by the amount of respect this garners me. That silence intimidates puzzles me. Silence is to me normal, comfortable." Later he added, "I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet."
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On Knight's opinion of the "Hermit" label
>""When I came out of the woods they applied the hermit label to me. Strange idea to me. I had never thought of myself as a hermit. Then I got worried. For I knew with the label hermit comes the idea of crazy. See the ugly little joke." [...] One of the benefits of being labelled a hermit is that it permits me strange behavior"
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On Knight being asked to provide a grand insight about life
>"Was there some grand insight, I questioned Knight, revealed to him in the wild? [...] He sat quietly, whether thinking or fuming or both, it was hard to tell. But he eventually arrived at a reply. It felt like some great mystic was about to reveal the Meaning of Life. "Get enough sleep," he said. He set his jaw in a way that conveyed he wouldn't be saying any more."
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>Knight craved solitary confinement.
>"And to think this would be considered punishment. It is to laugh."
lol that's perfect. Directly counter to the SOLITARY IS TORTURE virtue signal liberals have been shouting.
Absolutely sorted
it is torture for the average human being, this guy was clearly something else
>get enough sleep
be well rested to complete the days tasks...simple but wise
>muh libruhls tryin to control muh mind
Get over yourself dude. One guy being totally comfortable with solitude doesn't mean people are not evolved around social interaction and living in groups.
I almost cried at this, OP. Damn.
yup, its mental torture...look at adx florence, the unibomber has been in solitary since the 90s
On Knight's opinion of eye contact
>"He explained about the lack of eye contact. "I'm not used to seeing people's faces. There's too much information here. Aren't you aware of it? Too much, too fast." [...] "I'm glad this is between us," he said, tapping on the window. "If there was a set of blinds here, I'd close them."
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On Knight's opinion of social interaction
>"The jail authorities had given him the option of a contract visit, but he's chosen this style instead. "I prefer a meeting of minds rather than a touching of bodies. I like my distance." [...] "I'm sorry about being rude if it gets to the point quicker," he said."
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On Knight's memory and opinion on over-stimulation
>"It seemed that Knight could immediately recall anything he had ever read or seen, though he insisted that he did not have a photographic memory. He just remembered it all. [...] He wondered if modern society, with its flood of information and tempest of noise, was only making us dumber."
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thanks for doin these, really loved the hitler one
>"It seemed that Knight could immediately recall anything he had ever read or seen, though he insisted that he did not have a photographic memory. He just remembered it all. [...] He wondered if modern society, with its flood of information and tempest of noise, was only making us dumber."
wouldnt doubt it
Is that bikelock guy?
How? He seems average to me. Look at how many guys in this thread empathize with him.
>Get over yourself dude.
I promise to conform. I don't want to be shunned.
On a psychologist's view of Knight
>"Knight was examined by a forensic psychologist hired by the state of Maine to evaluate his mental health. Court documents show that the state considered Knight to have "complete competency." The state also offered three diagnoses: Asperger's disorder, depression, or possible schizoid personality disorder."
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On Knight and Asperger syndrome
>"Thomas W. Frazier [...] felt it was "pretty obvious" that Knight had autistic traits, especially his lack of eye contact, his sensory touchiness, and his absence of friends. [...] South African neuroscientist Henry Markram [...] has explained the disorder with what he calls the "intense world" theory - motions, sounds, and lights that most of us naturally disregard feel to an autistic person like an endless assault [...] Autistic people take in too much and learn too fast, overwhelmed not only by their own emotions but by the emotions of others. [...] To remain stable, Markram believed, you'd have to regulate your life to the fullest extent possible, developing a rigorous focus on detail and repetition. Oliver Sacks wrote that autistic people, as an adaptation to an "uninhibited barrage of sensation," often needed to create a world of their own, one that was calm and orderly. Some autistic people fashioned this world between their ears, but Knight built it amid the trees."
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I fucking love this guy.
Got any screencaps of the Hitler one? I'd love to read it
>He said everything shown on PBS was "carefully crafted for liberal baby boomers with college degrees,"
Ourguy
>you could argue, is the most solitary known person in all of human history."
bullshit. we've found lots of feral children.
>depression, or possible schizoid personality disorder.
>just leave me alone
Clearly he's unstable I mean who doesn't want to deal with all society has to offer? Fucking hell this pisses me off to no end
Haha he is so /lit
Thanks for doing another ones these threads.
OP here. I will post links to that thread and others at the end of this thread if that's ok.
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On Knight's conditions for release
>"He needs to call his case manager every day. [...] He is also fined a total of about $2,000, to be distributed to his victims. He will live at home, with his mother, and must find a job or go to school, and he must perform community service. [...] He will be subject to random drug and alcohol testing."
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On Knight's life after prison
>"Now he is being tossed into public life, and he's frightened. [...] "I'm extremely emotionally thin-skinned. I need therapy. I realize that." [...] "I have no preparation for re-entry into society. I don't know your world." [...] "It's too loud. Too colourful. The lack of aesthetics. The crudeness. The inanities. The trivia. The inappropriate choices of aspirations and goals."
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On Knight's relationship with a woman after leaving prison
>"While Knight was still in jail, a woman named Alice Macdonald, who went to highschool with him, sent him a letter. She was a couple of years older, she wrote, but she remembered Knight and hoped to conduct Bibly-study lessons with him. Knight did not want the lessons, but something about Macdonald interested him. She wasn't prying to get at his story and seemed to have no ulterior motives. [...] "So you have a girlfriend," I'd teased [...] during our final jailhouse meeting. "No, I'm not engaging in romance, if that nasty little thought crossed your mind. [...] She's a nice lady. She provides me comfort. She got emotional one day and said, 'I wish I could hug you.' I found the idea of her touching me to be an alien idea."
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he MAY have all these problems
Wtf is this shit, what do you mean may??? Fucking hell what a quack profession that shit is
>thinks userbase of this board is average
Psychological categorization is not black and white. They try to fit people into generalized conditions because similar conditions will have similar treatments.
Fuck your categories, speaking from experience with many of these shit heads, they can all go fuck themselves.
Go ahead and put yourself in a fucking box ill remain me and do as i please.
I think it means the duration. Most of them are rescued or die before being out there so long.
>To remain stable, Markram believed, you'd have to regulate your life to the fullest extent possible, developing a rigorous focus on detail and repetition.
I'm fucking autistic
just remember to take your meds :^)
....ya ive got them all here on my bedside table.
kill me
OP here. This is my final post, I hope this thread was interesting. The following quotations detail the author's most recent contact with Mr. Knight.
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On Knight not wanting to find a job
>"I tell Knight that I can research employment opportunities for him, quiet jobs like security guard or librarian, and he shakes his head vigorously no. "Please leave me alone," he says."
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On Knight's struggle to live among people
>""I'm not doing very well," he admits. [...] Nobody understands him, he tells me. People constantly take offense at what he says. "They misconstrue me as arrogant. I feel like I'm in high school all over again. [...] The judge, his counsellors, and his therapist, says Knight, speak to him as though he's a child. Every time he admitted he was struggling, they fed him platitudes. [...] He grew tired of hearing them, so now he keeps quiet. [...] "I am a square peg," he says. Everybody he encounters, he feels, is smashing at him, pounding on him, trying to jam him into a round hole. Society seems no more welcoming to him than before he left. "
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On Knight's intention to commit suicide
>"He tells me he has a plan. He is going to wait for the first really frigid day, probably in late November, six or so months from now, and he will set out into the forest wearing very little clothing. He will walk as deep into the woods as he can. Then he is going to sit down and allow nature to take care of him. He will freeze himself to death. [...] He thinks about this all the time. He realizes he's caught in an impossible trap: if he seeks liberty by returning to his camp, he'll be locked up. He craves to "touch, embrace, accept relief." He's done some research: hypothermia, he believes, is a painless way to die. "It's the only thing that will make me free." [...] His voice catches and his Stoicism crumbles, and the humanity beneath pushes out, and I glance at his face and see tears sliding down his cheeks."
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>lack of eye contact, sensory touchiness, absence of friends = autism
Is this faggot absolutely retarded.
Living in isolation for 27 years makes you a bit edgy around other people.
If you go for a week without seeing anyone it makes you edgy around people.
I'd like to sage this fuckwit Henry Markram.
and right in the feels with that last paragraph
thanks for this, an actually Sup Forumsitically incorrect way of life
Yeah, sensationalism.
Hermits have been around forever, and some live and die without every being known.
Like the Japanese soldier who stayed in the woods after ww2.
Another was a vietnemse guy who only just emerged, father and son.
Plenty in eastern Russia.
holy molly this is gold
>She got emotional one day and said, 'I wish I could hug you.' I found the idea of her touching me to be an alien idea."
ONE OF US
>On Knight's intention to commit suicide
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>>"He tells me he has a plan. He is going to wait for the first really frigid day, probably in late November, six or so months from now, and he will set out into the forest wearing very little clothing. He will walk as deep into the woods as he can. Then he is going to sit down and allow nature to take care of him. He will freeze himself to death. [...] He thinks about this all the time. He realizes he's caught in an impossible trap: if he seeks liberty by returning to his camp, he'll be locked up. He craves to "touch, embrace, accept relief." He's done some research: hypothermia, he believes, is a painless way to die. "It's the only thing that will make me free." [...] His voice catches and his Stoicism crumbles, and the humanity beneath pushes out, and I glance at his face and see tears sliding down his cheeks."
Cheers for doing this OP. I very much enjoyed following this thread.
OP here.
For those interested in similar threads, here are a list of links:
Adolf Hitler: archive.4plebs.org
Ted Kaczynski: archive.4plebs.org
Timothy McVeigh: archive.4plebs.org
Anders Breivik: archive.4plebs.org
Joseph Goebbels: warosu.org
William Cottrell: desuarchive.org
Adam Lanza: desuarchive.org
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Also, here is a song by Christopher Knight's favorite band (Lynyrd Skynyrd) that I imagine he listened to a lot in his isolated camp:
youtube.com
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Thanks again.
They punished him inhumanely.
Telling him where he has to live, what he has to do.
Is this part of limited parole or permanent.