While he was close to the friends he mentions previously, he is closer to the reader. Also, denotes that he is going to become even more personal in the upcoming parts.

Nighest means closest. He would see people, friends, on the street who would call him by a familiar, rather than formal, name whenever they saw him.

Begins his transition to addressing the reader more directly, as opposed to merely recounting what he sees. While he may not have interacted directly with the people also crossing the river, those he watched, he felt an attachment because they shared something.

Note the play on look forward and look back. They look back on him and he looks forward, as in the directions. But also, he looks forward to them, as in cannot wait to interact with them again because of the enjoyment he gets from the kinship, and they look back on him, as in remember him later on, whether good because of things like his poetry, or bad, because he was that weird dude just sitting there watching people.

Here he lists more evil things he’s done and states that he doesn’t wish to be evil. In doing this, he makes the reader sympathetic towards him. Everyone has given into temptation when they know they shouldn’t.

Things he’d done that he’d initially thought amazing later seemed trivial to him.

People identify each other primarily by physical traits, so he gained an identity by having a body. Also, he gained an identity by the very act of being born. Had he never been born, he wouldn’t have existed and thus wouldn’t have had an identity.

He also says that he knows he got the body/life meant for him.

Experienceing life like this raised many strange questions for him. They would come to him at random times–in crowds or when he’s alone, when he’s active or when he’s resting, but he feels that others share these questions and experiences, or at least similar ones, hence the “too.”