"True, but this is a pretty major bump in the road ". The perfect understatement in this line sums it up perfectly. Those tiny gains in ground , the massive losses in territory, set out so candidly in this chapter . Don really is jumping the gun on the lover issue, but his internal battle is so very hard and very real . Sex , our role in it, whatever our inclination, is an integral part of how we see ourselves and react to others , even unconsciously, damage to that part opens up a whole vista of previously inconceivable emotions . Louis has his work cut out for him.... yip... a major fucking bump in the road .