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This is a very difficult way.  I must remember that.  From traversing it before, I remembered the inexpensive, healthy, protein-rich food and access to a world-class research library, but the experience has other dimensions.

The "quarantine planet" episode of the new Who comes to mind.

Although I should be more circumspect, as I've not yet quite lived up to the circumstance.  Still a bit like a fellow punched randomly in a civilized place, or who wandered accidentally down a difficult side street.  Strong, but befuddled, and very much not of the place.  It is possible to rise to the circumstance, become a monk/ninja/knight/whatever of the place, and survive that way.  But this is a function of time.

Absolute discipline and teetotal, of course, but still a bit of Touchstone in the forest.  Corin's shearling coat might become necessary.  A function of time, conditioned by identity.