This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous line from Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice. It's a quote from the play's opening soliloquy, in which Shylock tells Shylock that he's going to kill him if he doesn't leave him alone. Shylock says he'll kill himself if he can't get away with it. He's not going to let Shylock leave, he says, because he knows that if he does, the other men in the play will think that he is a traitor. The scene ends with Shylock telling Shylock to get away from him.