My mind constantly thinking back to the conditions during the last peregrinations -- the places, the nature of the experience. If one pines for exile, perhaps there is a condition beneath exile in inopportune return.
Oedipus wandering empty Thebes, homeless -- dreaming of the strange streets and the bare camp-beds and tables of unfamiliar Colonus.
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And yes, camp-beds and tables is a reference to Wittgenstein. Working a few of those into the plaints of the present helps to elevate the tone. Rise above.