I found it amazing, and very very interesting. It makes sense that, after such a long time in the woods, one would lose a lot of social/communication skills, but this case is even more interesting because he seems like an inteligent person and, while he didn't have any human contact, he read a lot of books. That's a really interesting combination, I think, because reading books is great exercise for the mind, and usually lead to some sort of self-analysis which I think made him very self aware. While I've never been more that a couple weeks out camping, I really like and somewhat relate to this line With no audience, no one to perform for, I was just there. There was no need to define myself; I became irrelevant. The moon was the minute hand, the seasons the hour hand. I didn’t even have a name. I never felt lonely. To put it romantically: I was completely free.