How Do You Negotiate Barriers Between You?

This chapter is a play on, or a kind of reading of arthur conan doyle's story the lost world. In which they are recounting a character named professor challenger who gives this kind of diatribe about stratification. And inguatari are kind of correlating that to the idea of stratification in terms of geology. So that's like how there are layers of rocks upon layers of rocks, how that can be used to understand ideas about a singular, constructed, concretized identities and their relationship to other concrete identities. They don't really talk about it in these terms. I'm just trying to illustrate it a and between you, it's kind of like