This chapter's epigraph is from a famous poem by the English poet William Butler Yeats. It's a quote from the poem "Ulysses," in which the protagonist, Ulysses, asks Ulysses why he's so afraid of him. Ulysses replies that he doesn't want to be afraid of the devil. He's afraid that he'll be killed by the devil if he tries to fight him. The poem ends with Ulysses asking the protagonist if he'd rather be a pig or a human. Ulysses says that he wouldn't eat a pig, but his instinct tells him that his life would be at risk if he didn't. He asks the protagonist to try the pig first, but Ulysses refuses. He wonders why Ulysses and the devil have become enemies so quickly.