This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous nursery rhyme, "Auld Lang Syne." It's a play on the word "snort," which means "to snort," or "to stop." The song's title comes from the Latin word slut, which means to stop, or to stop "with a sigh," or to "stop with a sigh." In other words, the song is about stopping, or stopping with a "snoop" . The song starts off by asking, "ame-god dammit" , and then proceeds to ask, "why are you guys doing this?" . We're not sure what the answer is, but we're guessing it's "you're from the prodigal play-in-the-house with soft brains . . who are you?" The song ends with the question, "who are you people?" , which is a reference to the people who are currently living in the house. The narrator tells us that the people in the song are from the "prodigious prodigal playin' house" with "soft brains," which is why they're tearing down the house and replacing it with a house of their own. We know that's not a good idea, but the narrator doesn't really know what to make of it. He asks, "what are those freaks going to do with the house ? " . He then turns to the narrator's friend, Sam, and tells him that he's the second-most powerful man in the world after his father, Lucifer, and that he can change his father's mind about the house's fate. Sam, of course, isn't having any of this. He's