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“Literary Hub » What Is the Difference Between Exile and Exiles?”
“It could even appear obsolete, in any case only applicable to very specific and restricted numbers.”
“However, he and his former employers all become victims of passing Time: The Mafia moves out of the casino business, many of the old casinos are destroyed and new ones are built (with money from junk bonds and managed with the most cutting-edge corporate methods).”
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“(137) Walcott was not writing about people in general, but about writers of fiction specifically, and about a certain sense of self-aggrandizement that sometimes afflicts us.”
“Yet, I’ve written a novel in which exile and exiles occupy a central place.”
“A quarter century after Walcott’s derisive verdict, the term “exile” could indeed seem dated.”
“The fluidity of capital, the fluidity of populations: We are not in Kansas, or Las Vegas anymore.”
“I write “us” because, after many years of writing academic books and articles, I’ve just written my first novel* in which it happens that “exile” is front and center.”
““Exile” carries in its wake a sense of smaller numbers, even a heroically political quality, an aura of unthreatening sparsity.”
“Exiles belong to a world of smaller numbers; exiles don’t disturb “population stability,” or the fluidity of capital, and all that those entails.”
“In the scene from Casino , that look backwards may be found, among other places, in the Native American—maybe Paiute?—bird and feather on the old cowboy’s hat, perhaps once a powerful instrument or symbol of origin and stability, now a mere ornament, a trinket, the trace of an older past.”
“Conversely, all it takes is a look backwards for the work of sedimentation and accretion to become apparent; sometimes, a quick look backwards is all it takes for the relative, even if momentarily powerful, status of any group claiming the rights of “blood and soil” to be laid bare.”
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