The narrator tells us that the girl in this chapter is a "drunk teenager" . She's so drunk that she can't even remember where she's been. The narrator asks the girl what she wants, and the girl says she wants a "crystal nucleus" , which is a fancy term for the nucleus of a sexual organ. The girl wants to know if the man in the rowboat can take away her crystal nucleus, but the narrator doesn't know what to do. He tells the girl to "swish ah" and "cover what are you" and then asks her if she wants to "swap" with him. She says yes, but she'd rather not be "beaten" by a man. She wants the man to promise not to pester her, and then she'll let him go. He says he'll take a