This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous line from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, in which he says, "I am the messenger, the messenger of the king." In this passage, Shakespeare is referring to the fact that he is a messenger sent by the king to deliver a message to the king. The king is the messenger sent to deliver the message, and the messenger is the king's messenger. Julius Caesar's messengers are messengers sent by kings to deliver messages to their subjects.