Go, Part 3, Hell, Chapters 1-3 Summary

When Paul returns to Kathryn at their apartment, she is tight with hurt and rage. She reads aloud a few passages from his letters about his love for Liza and how marriages can go wrong. He tries to explain that it's just an adolescent, literary exercise, but she doesn't believe him. Nor does she believe him when he says he never had an affair with Liza. He talks about the difference between real love and this imagined emotion, but she screams that he's a liar. They exhaust themselves from the tension of the fight, and when they finally go to bed, they end up making fierce love, full of despair. In Chapter 2, Stofsky leaves Bianca's apartment late and outside the door of his apartment he finds Albert Ancke, his morphine-addicted friend. Ancke, who has been...