In Exile
As a young boy, he fled to Crete after the death of his father, his mother and his older brother, when Alexander Balas usurped the Seleucid throne.
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“No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.”
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“the bird in the poplar tree
dreaming, his head
tucked into
far-and-near exile under his wing ...”
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