exile
Banished, self-removed, or simply too strange to stay.
The Friar Who Kept Flying
What happens when a monk so incompetent he nearly wasn't ordained starts doing something no one can explain or contain?
Ten Hours, Ten Seconds
He calculated that ten hours of punching holes produced ten seconds of music, and he kept punching for forty years.
The Company He Kept
In 1825 an eighteen-year-old from New York couldn't get cast in an American theatre, so he sailed to London and played Oroonoko; thirty years later, what was Prussia giving him a gold medal for?