But Leila's relationship to the outside world is paradoxical.
At last the gallery has a relationship to the outside world.
During his disciplinary hearing, he made a plea for leniency, using the writer's mother's death as an excuse and thereby exposing the extent of their relationship to the outside world.
Her descriptions vividly capture the "horror," in her words, of a body whose new limits are "simply beyond belief," and the pain of reconfiguring that body's relationship to the outside world.
What's more, there was a refreshing realism in their relationship to the outside world: walking down the street, the rebbetzin often joked that she and her husband were the odd ones out, what with her wig and his accoutrement, and that it was ultimately up to them to adapt and reach out to the people around them, not the other way around.
The modern polarisation which insists that novels are either "experimental" or "realistic" and must therefore stand in a completely different relationship to the outside world would have made little sense to Fielding who saw no reason why a credible story should not be told within a highly artificial form.
In a similar fashion, Baudrillard, a "strong simulacrist," claims that in the media and consumer society, people are caught up in the play of images, spectacles, and simulacra, that have less and less relationship to an outside, to an external "reality," to such an extent that the very concepts of the social, political, or even "reality" no longer seem to have any meaning.
In many ways, 2015 has been a transitional point for Iran and its relationship to the outside world.
I wanted to regain some of our privacy, to stop showcasing all of my life and relationship to the outside world.
