In "by the waters of babylon," john sees the city "as it had been when the gods were alive." what is he seeing?

New York City as it had been.

By the Water of Babylon is a short story by Stephen Vincent Bene't narrated in first-person by protagonist John. In the Place of Gods, John envisions the occurrences that consumed the civilization of the Gods. He saw new York City as it once was.

- "a nonrestrictive clause functions as a modifier to a noun (that is an object, person or concept). these clauses can be described by the following three options: it is set off by comas, it contains a subject and a verbs and it adds nonessential information to the sentence.

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