"As I begin at the place, it, I am not certain of the identities of the "he' and "she" who lie talking in bed...
"...you can trek across a single place four times, as I did, and discover that it possesses four radically different meanings each time. It wasn't until I encountered a place more than twice that I realized that the words themselves had actually stayed the same
"each... breathes life into a narrative of possibility which momentarily obliterates the other possible, but yet to be actualized, versions of reality. During my third and fourth encounters with the same place, the immediate context remains the same as in the second, what changes is my understanding of the larger picture of adultery, deceit, and (as another possible reading suggests) the guilty panic of a man..."
Jane Yellowlees Douglas