The island man sees his past life filtered through the lens of the complete solitude he has procured himself. Everything is indistinct and exaggerated. The girl becomes The Girl, an archaic perfect ideal. His telling of the story of his relationship with her is painful because he has chosen a life that means he will never have the opportunity to see her again and as a coping mechanism he dowses his words in metaphors, makes it into an ecstatic cathartic fantasy.
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