mapping the space between us

One of the ideas I became interested in and want to explore in my novel-in-progress THE DECADENTS is, to paraphrase a character from one of my favorite novels of all time, WHAT I LOVED (Siri Husvedt) is "mapping the space between us, where one person ends and another person begins."

This is the concept of personal boundaries, and when you're fleshing out your characters it's useful to think of how healthy -- or not -- their boundaries are. If I have boundaries with holes in them (and most of ...