Goat Island fits into Harvey’s description of spacetime, where, “matter and processes do not exist…or even effect it.” The island is a figure of how a a place can be stuck in this process of the fusion of space and time. Separated from the mainland, Goat Island exists as its own world, largely unaffected by what goes on across the reach. As the mainland has spent years developing and advancing, Goat Island has spent the same time unaffected by these factors. This is especially relevant for Stella Flanders, who has never gone over to the mainland; she explains how this is due to her feeling that she has never had a reason to. I think that this is a product of how spacetime has influenced her and Goat Island as a whole. For Stella, it is impossible to separate the space that Goat Island takes up, and the time that she has spent there. The psychological feeling of the reach growing smaller, is also due to the compression of space and time.