Can I, a coronavirus 'shielder', find consolation in lockdown? | John Sutherland
by John Sutherland from on (#554DX)
As I reflect on the deaths of earlier Sutherlands, and the writers I've written books about, I find myself thinking of Prospero
National hibernation the man called it. A refreshing winter snooze. For me what came to mind was not bears in the woods but imprisonment. Lockdown" is jail jargon and it fitted.
It was a version of the 19th-century philosopher Jeremy Bentham's theory that incarceration should be isolation (the separate system"). Why? So that, alone with their thoughts, prisoners could reflect, repent and reform.
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