This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Invisible Man" . Longfellow's poem is about a man who is afraid of the dark, and he is afraid that he will die if he does not find a way to protect himself from the dark. In this poem, the man who fears the worst is the one who is most afraid of death. He fears that his life will be ruined if he is not protected from the darkness. He also fears that if he dies, his death will be the end of the world. The poem ends with the poem's protagonist, a young boy, asking Longfellow to protect him from the "dark" of the future.