The scene opens with a splash of water in the distance. The narrator tells us that this is the first time he's ever seen water so "intimate" . He's also the first person ever to have seen water "so intimate" , which is a fancy way of saying that the water feels like it's about to melt away . Oh, and by the way, the narrator's not the only one who's been seeing water this way: his mom, his dad, his sister, his brother-in-law, and so on.