This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous poem by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, in which he laments the fact that the English have lost their way in the world and have been forced to live in the past. In this poem, he bemoans the loss of their sense of self and their sense that they are no longer worthy of the English throne. He also laments that they have lost touch with the real world, and that they no longer have the ability to see the world through the eyes of the common people. He then goes on to criticize the English for their lack of self-awareness and for their failure to recognize that the world is not their own, but rather the world of other people. The poem ends with Shelley lamenting that he has lost his sense of purpose and that he no longer has the will to live.