Sentence:  If the surprisor and the surprisee are mutually astonished, then, indeed, there is a tangle out of which anything may emerge, for two explanations are necessary at the one moment, and two explanations can no more hold the same position in time than two bodies can occupy the same <WSD>lodgment</WSD> in space. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An area used for lodging; a place in which a person or thing is or can be lodged.