This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe. In the poem, a creaky core is described as the center of a body. If you fight it, it will cease to move. In other words, if you defeat the core, you'll be able to do whatever you want with the rest of the body. Poe's poem ends with a soliloquy in which he says that he has a grand objective: "to preserve this world" .
This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe. In the poem, a creaky core is described as the center of a body. If you fight it, it will cease to move. In other words, if you defeat the core, you'll be able to do whatever you want with the rest of the body. Poe's poem ends with a soliloquy in which he says that he has a grand objective: "to preserve this world" .