This chapter's epigraph comes from a poem by the famous English poet William Butler Yeats. It's a poem in which the protagonist asks the reader to imagine that he's in the middle of a conversation between himself and another person. The protagonist, in the poem, asks the other person to imagine himself in a similar situation to himself. He imagines himself as a young boy who is about to grow up, and he imagines that he will have to learn how to use a sword, a skill he'll need to master in order to master the art of magic. He also imagines a world in which he will be able to use the sword as a weapon, a world where he can use the blade as a sword and wield it as a blademaster.