This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous line from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It's about a ghostly death rod, which is a device that captures the ghosts of people who have died in the line of duty and uses them to create the impermanence that exists in black and white. Shakespeare says that he created the death rod by gathering the spirits of innocent victims of crime and using them to make the rod. He adds that the lives that have been consumed by the rod are those of the innocent victims who were wrongfully killed. This is a gross thing to do, Shakespeare says, and he has to leave the place.