Pages 134-165 Summary

The narrator wonders what has happened to his world. He is beginning to think that he should have told Hosna how he felt about her. That might have prevented the events that occurred. He feels that he lost the war because he didn't act when he could have. "The world has turned suddenly upside down. Love? Love does not do this. This is hatred. I feel hatred and seek revenge; my adversary is within and I needs (sic) must confront him. Even so, there is still in my mind a modicum of sense that is aware of the irony of the situation. I begin from where Mustafa Sa'eed had left off. Yet he at least made a choice, while I have chosen nothing" (Chapter 9, pg. 134).

He goes to the house of Mustafa Sa'eed and uses the key to enter the triangular...