In this chapter, we learn that the narrator is in love with a "dangerous man" who is making him want to "be embraced" by the man. The narrator tells the man that he is "so wet" that he will not be able to "hold back" the man's "licks, shakes, and twitches" . The man responds by saying that the man has been "lonely" for a month and that he has not seen the man for "a month." The narrator asks the man if he likes the smell of the place, and the man replies that he does. He says that the place feels "so rub-twitch" , and that it is "only a month since you last saw him whoa . . it's just a dream." The man says that he feels "just a dream" of the man, and wonders if the man felt so real that he dreamed he was sleeping with the woman in the shop. He then asks the narrator if he