This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe, entitled "The Ballad of the Ghost Hunter." In this poem, Allan Poe explains that he is trapped in the ghost's vortex, and that he has lost all of his energy. He feels as though he has fallen into a dark vortex, filled with "powerful energy," and that his "cults never create good things." He asks the ghost to help him escape from the vortex, but the ghost tells him that it is too dangerous for him to do so