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Tisa Ammann
This is a platform game based on the movie "Home Alone". Kevin's family went on vacation, but they forgot about him, so now he's home alone. Now there are two burglars who want to break into the house.Kevin has to prevent the burglars from kidnapping him, by riddling the house with traps.
The player controls Kevin through the mansion in a side perspective. He has one hour before the burglars will break into the house. In this hour, the player has to set up various traps in order to make the burglars give up on capturing Kevin.After this hour, the burglars break in, and the traps become active. Each trap deals 5 damage to a burglar, and the first shot of Kevin's BB gun deals another 5. During this phase, the screen always tells in which room each burglar is at the moment. The game is won by dealing 50 damage to each burglar.
If you return to that hypothetical bookstore, you will find that a remarkable number of the classics on its shelves were written by solitary travelers. Evidently some wisdom is available to these millions of people who are seeking, or at least experiencing, solitude.
After more than twenty years of living alone, I launched an investigation of how these authors lived out solitude in a world that seems so exclusively to celebrate coupling up, that sees bachelor- or spinsterhood as tragic. In search of a rich perspective on the solitary life, I embarked on a tour of the work, lives, and homes of writers and artists. I hoped to learn what they had to teach about the dignity and challenge of such living amid a barrage of technology that is hell-bent on ensuring that we are never, ever alone.
I grew up in a medieval landscape, in the shadow of the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani, a chunk of Norman France transplanted by the improbable forces of history to the Kentucky Knobs. As recently as the 1950s, during my childhood, the monks spoke in sign language and farmed with great draft horses, waking or leaving off their work to pray the offices when the tower bell tolled: vigils at 3:15 a.m., then lauds, terce, sext, none, vespers at sunset, and compline to close the day, the church dark except for a candlelit icon. Lord grant us a restful night and a peaceful death. O clement, o loving, o sweet Virgin Mary.
Does ascetic practice require bricks and mortar? In our solitude, might we devise ways of supporting and disseminating ascetic virtues without monasteries? Did the disappearance of the culture that built Cluny and La Grande Chartreuse and Cteaux mean the disappearance of the virtues they were intended to cultivate and inspire? Surely there is a vital place in our ramped-up world for simple contemplation of what is.
I do not wish to say that being solitary is superior or inferior to being coupled, nor that the full experience of solitude requires living alone, though doing so may create a greater silence in which to hear an inner voice. Bachelorhood is a legitimate vocation. Spinsterhood is a calling, a destiny. I am seeking to understand more deeply this peculiar vocation, to which, evidently, I have been called, and which, evidently, more and more people are undertaking.
In the 1930s, my mother danced on tabletops and wore skirtless bathing suits and was seduced from teetotaling Protestantism into the Roman Catholic Church by the smells and bells, incense and music, that she encountered in her one semester in college, when she roomed across the street from a Roman Catholic church. Marrying my father provided an excuse for a conversion to which she had long been drawn, the most rebellious, exotic, passionate act that a woman from the Bible Belt could accomplish.
Hurston married three times, with each marriage effectively over within months, though the divorces sometimes took years to be finalized. Consider, please, the disservice to civilization of imposing on this free spirit, this great writer and servant to humanity, this great solitary, vows of either celibacy or marriage.
Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. . . . Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
I hear the answer in this quiet room; I see it in the angle of the autumn sun. The great, incomparable reward of being alone is the opportunity, if I can be large enough to rise to its occasion, to encounter the great silence at the core of being, a silence that is both uniquely mine and one with the background hum of the universe. To live for the changing of the light seems adequate reward.
As a fun family tradition, my daughters and I spend most of December watching all of our favorite holiday movies. I was recently watching the 1990 holiday classic, Home Alone (yes, 1990 is now considered a classic). If you remember, an adorable Macaulay Culkin plays Kevin McAllister, a precocious 8-year-old who gets left home alone when his family is heading to Paris for the holidays.
I hope you have enjoyed this light-hearted example of using the Cause Mapping method for digging into a problem. Download a copy of the Cause Mapping template to try investigating an incident yourself! Happy Holidays!
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