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What does that is mean in:
I experience the world, that is, as a map of fears to navigate, its coordinates all shattering bits coming at uneven speeds.
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I am proposing two answers: 1- In this particular sentence, it means 'as we know it'. I experience the world as we know it as a map etc. Not the world of romance, or an idealistic world, or the world as it 'should be'.
- I am proposing two answers: 1- In this particular sentence, it means 'as we know it'.
- I experience the world as we know it as a map etc.
- Not the world of romance, or an idealistic world, or the world as it 'should be'.
- 2- The author is attracting the reader's attention in a clever way to a profound statement the author is about to make, either because it's skilled in its diction or because it reveals a lot about the speaker.
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I am proposing two answers:
1- In this particular sentence, it means 'as we know it'. I experience the world as we know it as a map etc.
Not the world of romance, or an idealistic world, or the world as it 'should be'.
2- The author is attracting the reader's attention in a clever way to a profound statement the author is about to make, either because it's skilled in
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