{"id":132252,"date":"2018-12-25T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=132252"},"modified":"2018-12-20T12:08:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T17:08:58","slug":"to-be-at-home-everywhere-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/25\/to-be-at-home-everywhere-2\/","title":{"rendered":"To Be At Home Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>We\u2019re away until January 2, but we\u2019re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2018. Enjoy your holiday!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>On Dolly Parton\u2019s <\/em>My Tennessee Mountain Home<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/dolly-parton-porter-wagoner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-129221\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/dolly-parton-porter-wagoner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/dolly-parton-porter-wagoner.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/dolly-parton-porter-wagoner-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/dolly-parton-porter-wagoner-768x595.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What Novalis says about philosophy\u2014that in reality, it is a homesickness\u2014is true also of country music, though philosophers and country singers have different ideas about what home is. In philosophy, home is a state of perfect understanding. Philosophers, Novalis writes, long to \u201cbe at home everywhere.\u201d Country singers, on the other hand, long not so much for the outside world\u2014or, for that matter, the world to come\u2014but rather for the world as they once knew it, typically in childhood. The philosopher hopes for a home she\u2019s never seen while the country singer mourns for the home she may never see again.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the homesick country albums by all the homesick country singers, few explore homesickness more searchingly than Dolly Parton\u2019s <em>My Tennessee Mountain Home<\/em>. In eleven bittersweet songs, lasting a little over thirty-three minutes total, Dolly revisits the fraught days after she first moved to Nashville, when the future was a stranger, the past a dear friend, and the present a disorienting swirl of memories and dreams.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/12\/to-be-at-home-everywhere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The philosopher hopes for a home she\u2019s never seen while the country singer mourns for the home she may never see 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