Oh now, let's be posting comments of substance here; since we still don't know his fate, I suggest we write stuff encouraging to the brain-damaged primitive, so he doesn't lose heart.
<<<nice guy.
Last night, before going to bed, I happened to glance over towards one bookcase, noticing two books there that a very long time ago belonged to my father, and pre-date me by almost a generation, Osa Johnson's
I Married Adventure and
Four Years In Paradise, both published circa 1940, and original editions.
I dunno if a library in urban northern New Jersey would have them any more, but if the brain-damaged primitive sees them, I suggest he check them out, so as to gain inspiration from the story of the first people to encounter, study, and photograph various groups of primitive cultures of the South Seas and other places, circa 1910-1940.
It was dangerous work, fraught with both physical peril and considerable financial instability, but this couple valiantly pressed on, illuminating the outside world of the nature and lives of people very much different from us.
I first read both books at the age of 8 years; not that I was an especially precocious reader, but more so that Osa Johnson had a plain, straightforward writing style reflective of her childhood in Kansas, and while compressed with much information, even a child had no problem comprehending it.
I'd first read them at the suggestion of an older brother who was in college, and who used to send me reading lists. This brother, like all the others, was a hippie, and I suspect he was trying to "convert" me. I diligently read each book he suggested, and diligently wrote him back, giving my impressions.
I think he was disappointed that most of the conclusions I drew were contrary to the impressions he'd hoped I'd draw.
Now, the brain-damaged primitive is much too old and voluntarily closed-minded to embark upon a novel career of studying and recording exotic societies--although he himself might prove interesting to people who've never seen a walrus before, and try to dine on him--but that's not why he should read these books.
He should read these books simply to be inspired, motivated, by two people who did such extraordinary things against such daunting, formidable, fearsome, obstacles.
