"Stay here in Chicago if you like, it's all the same to me. This neighborhood we're in right now might suit you perfectly, and I know I'll never come here again."
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"This unimaginable space in Chicago that may never have existed before this moment is the perfect place for you, a hallucination," says his wife Truth. Sodomy looks around judging how he might fit in. "I'll never come here again," finishes Truth, rubbing her backside and flinching at the memory of her husband's sins.
Chicago, especially this place neither spouse has seen before, will become the home of a person who doesn't know who he is anymore, maybe never have known at all. And his wife is fine to never see him again, all based on rumor and speculation. Is this tragic? Is this pop culture reality daytime talk show drama? Or is this a re-imagined version of The Age of Innocence? Except instead of May accepting Archer's childish crush on her cousin, Troth has decided she doesn't want to live with a man who is actually in love with Wensleydale.
Is the idea of a neighborhood in Chicago nobody knew existed—or denied existed, more probably—a metaphor for Lew's homosexuality? And the reason Troth will never trod that neighborhood again? She doesn't want to believe it exists and so she'll deny it from this day forward, and her husband as well.
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