"...the story privileges a 'logic of ambiguity'... It 'turns' the frontier into a crossing, and a river into a bridge. It recounts inversions and displacements: the door that closes is precisely what may be opened; the river is what makes passage possible; the tree is what marks the stages of advance; the picket fence is an ensemble of interstices through which one's glances pass." -Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, 1988