This chapter's epigraph comes from the opening lines of the play, which are: "Wo smash! whoosh ! . . snap!" . In other words, this is the beginning of the end of the story, and it's time to move on to the next chapter. The epigraph's title is a reference to the fact that the black panther, the main character in this chapter, is a creature that devours its enemies. This means that the protagonist is able to devour a black panther at any stage of the beast's life cycle