text: for a long while i have believed this is perhaps my version of sir darius xerxes cama s belief in a fourth function of outsideness that in every generation there are a few souls call them lucky or cursed who are simply born not belonging who come into the world semi detached if you like without strong affiliation to family or location or nation or race that there may even be millions billions of such souls as many non belongers as belongers perhaps that in sum the phenomenon may be as natural a manifestation of human nature as its opposite but one that has been mostly frustrated throughout human history by lack of opportunity