Refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of the narrative. read this excerpt from "goodbye to all that" by joan didion. we stayed ten days, and then we took an afternoon flight back to los angeles, and on the way home from the airport that night i could see the moon on the pacific and smell jasmine all around and we both knew that there was no longer any point in keeping the apartment we still kept in new york. which statement best explains how the imagery in the excerpt affects the meaning of the text? it highlights the isolation and loneliness of life in los angeles, demonstrating that didion faces the same problems there that she faced in new york. it depicts the dark and mysterious atmosphere of los angeles, indicating why didion is drawn to this new, exciting city. it provides an unrealistic and idealized impression of los angeles, showing that didion has not changed at all. it captures the beauty and serenity of life in los angeles, suggesting why didion feels more content living there than she did in new york.'

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it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.