This chapter's epigraph comes from a soldier's description of a machine gun nest, which he calls the enemy machine gun "nest." This is a reference to the machine guns used by the enemy in the city of Homage, where the battle is raging. The narrator tells us that the enemy is using these machine guns in order to confuse the enemy soldiers and to get them to abandon their positions. The red dog, however, is not one to be confused. He tells the lieutenant that he has been injured in the battle, and that he is not even wounded. The lieutenant tells the red dog that he should not try to flirt with a wounded soldier, because the wounded soldier looks like she is interested in him