[00:07.46]70.The Reward of Solitary Life [00:12.63]For me the most interesting thing about a solitary life, [00:16.37]and mine has been that for the last twenty years, [00:19.45]is that it becomes increasingly rewarding. [00:23.40]When I can wake up and watch the sun rise over the ocean, [00:27.20]as I do most days, and know that I have an entire day ahead, [00:31.55]uninterrupted, in which to write a few pages, [00:35.31]take a walk with my dog, [00:37.13]lie down in the afternoon for a think [00:40.52](Why does one think better in a horizontal position?), [00:44.47]read and listen to music, I am flooded with happiness. [00:50.38]I am lonely only when I am overtired, [00:53.50]when I have worked too long without a break, [00:56.35]when for the time being I feel empty and need filling up. [01:00.53]And I am lonely sometimes when I come back home after a lecture trip, [01:04.89]when I have seen a lot of people and talked a lot, [01:08.21]and am full to the brim with experience that needs to be sorted out. [01:12.75]Then for a little while the house feels huge and empty, [01:16.54]and I wonder where myself is hiding. [01:19.59]It has been recaptured slowly by watering the plants, perhaps, [01:24.03]and looking again at each one as though it were a person, [01:27.33]by feeding the two cats, by cooking a meal. [01:31.16]It takes a while, [01:32.32]as I watch the surf blowing up in fountains at the end of the field, [01:36.56]but the moment when the world falls away, [01:38.76]and the self emerges again from the deep unconsciousness, [01:42.76]bringing back all I have recently experienced [01:45.77]to be explored and slowly understood, [01:49.16]when I can converse again with my hidden powers, [01:51.93]and so grow, and so be rewarded, till death do us part.

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