This chapter's epigraph is from a famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, entitled "The Red Snake," which describes a snake's reaction to a red snake. In this poem, the red snake is described as a "red snake" , which means that it is a snake that has been bitten by a poisonous snake. The red snake, however, is not poisonous; rather, it is the result of a poisonous man's being bitten by another man. In other words, the man bitten by the snake is a human being, not a demon. The poem ends with the words, "Welcome back to the human world" .