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the long argument between a place you can't return to and a self you can't escape.
means To exile someone is to banish them from their home country or community, usually as punishment; an exile is also the person living in that enforced absence, and the state of being kept away.
from From Latin exilium, "banishment," rooted in exsul, an exiled person — likely built from ex- "out" plus a root tied to wandering or being driven (the same family that gives us "consul" and possibly the verb salire, "to leap"). It reached English through Old French exil in the medieval period, carrying its weight of forced departure intact: not a journey chosen, but a door shut behind you.
- word root
- From Latin exsilium, meaning to leap or wander out.
- ancient punishment
- Athens voted exiles by scratching names on pottery shards.
- creative fuel
- Dante wrote the Inferno banished from Florence.
- napoleon's island
- He escaped Elba, then died exiled on remote St. Helena.
- legal ghost
- Roman exiles lost citizenship but kept their lives.
napoleon bonaparte — french emperor exiled to elba in 1814, then st. helena in 1815
leon trotsky — soviet revolutionary exiled by stalin, assassinated in mexico city 1940
dalai lama — tibetan spiritual leader in exile in dharamshala, india since 1959