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1793年，住在威爾斯邊界旁的一棟莊園裡的Herbert Powyss，他有錢、也有時間去追求符合紳士格調的投資和實驗，他選擇的領域是園藝，除此之外，Powyss也渴望在科學上獲得成就。

 

為此，Powyss不惜遊走道德邊緣，想出了一個極端的實驗，研究的項目是「隔離」，受試者七年間必須待在三個房間之中，每個房間都有必需品：毛毯、書、繪畫，甚至還有一個管風琴，每天會有人來送三餐，受試者必須和外界完全隔離，不能有任何聯絡，每天必須記下腦中的想法和行為，實驗的費用是終身每一年支付五十英鎊。

 

只有一個男人John Warlow前來應徵，他有妻子和六個小孩要養，不太識字，平常靠勞力賺錢，計畫開始之後，原本就不太識字的Warlow對閱讀一點興趣也沒有，也沒辦法紀錄自己的日常，反而對跑進房間裡的青蛙比較感興趣。

 

這個發生在十八世紀的實驗有點脫軌，沒有料想到的曲折發展即將到來。


Herbert Powyss lives in an estate in the Welsh Marches, with enough time and income to pursue a gentleman's fashionable investigations and experiments in botany. But he longs to make his mark in the field of science--something consequential enough to present to the Royal Society in London. He hits on a radical experiment in isolation: For seven years a subject will inhabit three rooms in the basement of the manor house, fitted out with rugs, books, paintings, and even a chamber organ. Meals will arrive thrice daily via a dumbwaiter. The solitude will be totally unrelieved by any social contact whatsoever; the subject will keep a diary of his daily thoughts and actions. The pay: fifty pounds per annum, for life.
    Only one man is desperate to apply for the job: John Warlow, a semi-literate laborer with a wife and six children to provide for. The experiment, a classic Enlightenment exercise gone more than a little mad, will have unforeseen consequences for all included.

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