This chapter's epigraph comes from a line in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice. It's a quote from the play's protagonist, Virgil, who says, "I'm not a poet, I'm a poet." Virgil says that he is a poet because he wants to be able to tell people what they want to hear. He wants to tell them what they need to hear, and he wants them to tell him what they don't want. Virgil tells the protagonist that he can tell the difference between being a poet and being a demon. He says that the difference is that a poet can tell what people want, whereas a demon can only tell what the people want. The protagonist asks the protagonist what he should do, and the protagonist says he should kill the demons. Virgil says he can't, because he's not from the land of the dead. He's from a place called the "Sacred Place of Purple Heart." The protagonist says that if the demons can kill the humans, then he can kill them too.