We’re a resilient species, but everyone has a limit, a threshold, beyond which anything can happen.  When I think back on the summer and autumn of 1981, I am left shaking my head.  I suppose the most well-known tale of going ‘bush-crazy’ is Stephen King’s The Shining.  Never mind the supernatural elements of that novel, it’s about isolation.  The Overlook Hotel serves as a metaphor for Jack’s internal house of horrors.  A person just … snaps.

Now, digs aren’t much like the Overlook Hotel.  Th...