This chapter's epigraph comes from a conversation between a drunk and a girl. The girl tells the drunk that she's heard that some guys are getting married, and she asks the girl if she knows about it. The drunk tells her that he's off to a class reunion, and the girl asks him what's up. He says that his friend, who's not there, has refused to show up for the reunion. She asks why, and he says that it's because of some "hooliganism" that's been going on between him and his friend. He also says that he saw some people who were "bearing a grudge" against him, and that caused some people to laugh at him.