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and art galleries. He eats only what grows wild isbert made his home in a cave on a top around him. Thus he has resolved the question of an hill, overlooking the see and making his of money and bills: the first isn’t needed because the second never arrive. dream of life in total accord with nature. Gisbert Lippelt, the “Cave Man,” is a German He’s become an expert in the archeology and history of the islands, knows hidden caves with former ship’s officer who fell in love with ancient instruments left from the old times, and Eolian Islands, located near Sicily, some 38 secret reservoirs of water. He knows forgotten years ago. He took an immediate decisionquit his job (second mate of a luxurious cruise paths which lead into the depth of a longlost past, further back than the Empire of the ship), gave away all his property to local peasants as a gesture of liberation, and began Caesars. The Eolian islands, in the meantime, have been a trip backwards into history, you might say “discovered” by executives from Rome and back to the future. Milan, whose villas dot (or rather mar) the He chose as his “professors” the oldest landscape. The standard of living has become peasants on the island and has determinedly high and most local peasants have forgotten studied their folk craft and ways of life. For a their roots. They live by tourism. Paradoxically, dwelling he has built a marvelous cave in the German Gisbert is the only knowledge keeper most beautiful part of the island, he lives by collecting rain water (there is no groundwater) of the rich, ancient peasant civilization of the place, where people once lived in harmony with and wood and herbs. Candle light and live nature. fire keep him company, beautifull view with Free adaption from a text of Lada Alekseychuk. numerous volcanoes substitute him theatre


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