This chapter's epigraph is from a famous poem by the English poet William Butler Yeats. It's a quote from the poem "Ulysses," in which the protagonist asks, "What's wrong with the world?" . In this chapter, the protagonist is asking the question of a friend. He asks the friend if he's feeling well, and the friend says that he is. The protagonist asks if the friend is afraid of heights, and he says yes. The two of them hug and hold each other for a while.