Writing Problems: Exile

Frame, Stein, Shapiro

It is difficult to find those places today, and you would be no better off if you did, because no one lives there. —Strabo, of the lost past

Exile means banishment, but its Sanskrit root is sar-, meaning to go, and this is also the root of salīre, to leap. When Chaucer wrote in 1374, “Whi art Þou comen in to Þis solitaire place of myn exil” he was not on…