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Pyrenees, about 40 AD
Before there was any earth or sea, before the canopy of Heaven stretched overhead, Nature presented the same aspect the worm over, to which men have given the name of Chaos.
--Ovid, Metamorphoses
Exile is never the same thing for everyone. For certain people, it is almost death. Death to ambition, to love, to lost illusions, to hope. It is indeed a terrible punishment for that proud and ambitious being that is political man. Equally, it is so for a man of letters who, just like the politician, needs the Forum crowds, needs the breath of public air to live fully. For those people, the loss of Rome is worse, in a sense, than ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Fons origo.(Short Story)