Not insane maybe, but 30 years tending a lighthouse, the light
and intermittent fog horn never bothered the old man keeper,
until early one morning the fog horn failed to sound off... the old
man woke up with a start and wondered "What was that?"
de Joe, aa4nn
awareness of lighthouse-related things and one of these is the
legend that keepers sometimes went insane "from the isolation
and loneliness of lighthouse duty". It's now generally attributed
to handling the mercury used ... in large quantities ... as a lubricant
in some light rotation mechanisms.
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