{"id":149695,"date":"2020-12-28T13:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=149695"},"modified":"2020-12-11T16:56:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T21:56:59","slug":"i-see-the-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/12\/28\/i-see-the-world-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I See the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We\u2019re away until January 4, but we\u2019re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2020. Enjoy your holiday!<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_144639\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/window.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144639\" class=\"size-full wp-image-144639\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/window.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/window.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/window-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/window-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-144639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 robert \/ Adobe Stock.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It begins in this way:<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s as if we are dead and somehow have been given the unheard-of opportunity to see the life we lived, the way we lived it: there we are with friends we had just run into by accident and the surprise on our faces (happy surprise, sour surprise) as we clasp each other (close or not so much) and say things we might mean totally or say things we only mean somewhat, but we never say bad things, we only say bad things when the person we are clasping is completely out of our sight; and everything is out of immediate sight and yet there is everything in immediate sight; the streets so crowded with people from all over the world and why don\u2019t they return from wherever it is they come from and everybody comes from nowhere for nowhere is the name of every place, all places are nowhere, nowhere is where we all come from \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/04\/28\/i-see-the-world\/\">Read more &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s as if we 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