The theme of exile appears to hold great fascination for literary critics, artistic consumers, anthologists and festival directors of all artistic genres; and a week or two had hardly passed after my vanishing trick from my homeland before I began to be bombarded with enquiries about how exile was affecting my writing: "Are you still able to write?" "What does exile mean to your writing?" Ad infinitum. Invitations from literary journals were not slow to follow, then desperate summonses to conferences, seminars, etc, all in search of the elusive quarry - both process and product - that bears the invisible stigmata of literature in exile.