If he were really as alone as he suspected, past his mid-life, then even his closest ones were too typical to accompany him in solitude. That is, undoubtedly, correcting for egocentric arrogance of his own exceptionalism, which would make him as stereotypically inertial as would be expected of human behaviour.
But if he suspected right, then it would be back all over again to being alone. Except that he never left, like that silly hotel song that could never be checked out of.
What had he gained in sense, of the unbelievable real world around him? He could remain perpetually invisible, check. While revealing in plain sight all the time too, what fun! Because most are too busy fretting over their own peril, to even notice their surroundings much.
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