The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line banishment from all the living and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.