Silent Seekers Gifts

"Vous n'en auriez pas un autre moins bruyant?"

"...please switch off all mobile phones, paging devices and alarm watches..."

The Ray Bradbury classic, 'The Car Alarm.'

"Too crowded. Let's go."

"It's not the persistent lack of sunlight or freezing temperatures that bother me - it's the crowds I can't stand."

Club Antisocial

The Solitary 'Pleasure' Fisherman whose one desire is to get away from it all.

The writer: something who devotes a lifetime of solitude to the same of communication.

A vampire in a canoe.

'Stuck on a desert island, in the middle of the ocean, with only a palm tree for company, it's a bloody joke.'

"To be honest, I don't mind the cold, and being an introvert, and slightly antisocial, I really treasure the quiet time when the others have flown south..."

Excess Baggage: Some people take getting away from it all very seriously.

Crowded Ice Fishing

'Betty liked the way her house provided lots of private space.'

I should probably get out more.

"The previous tenant was a bit of a shut-in."

"I'm leaving. It's just way too much collaborating."

"Yes, I'm alone."

She required plenty of personal space.

This man is an island.

"It's a beautiful day. I should go for a walk. . . Oh, now my neighbors are all out there."

'It's a sign of the times, a high rise block of caves reserved for hermits.'

The lonely figure

"Awfully quiet... Must be a big game on!"

'Do you ever just feel like getting away from it all?'

No cell phones, tv or internet for a week. It's creepy. What's that annoying sound? Silence? It's awful. I can hear myself think!

"Someday we will escape from this prison."

'Even down here we never lose our sense of humor!'

'Openly sobbing, or non-openly sobbing?'

A politician's dream come true...

The Piano Dreams Of Home

'Silent type, eh?'

"I'm upstairs right now. On weekends and holidays, I go downstairs."

'Thoreau, doing research on chapter 7'

Gabriel Garcia Marquez.