The chapter opens at the survey club's lodge, a placid lake surrounded by lush green vegetation. It's a nice place to be, the narrator tells us, because it's surrounded by greenery. He's not a fan of the professor, who's just desperate for everyone's love. He tells the group that he doesn't want to be their faculty advisor, because he'll beat the crap out of them if they don't like him. He also tells them that he's going to take revenge on the professor if he finds anything suspicious in the woods. He says that the professor is probably blackmailing his students into stealing money from the club, and that he will take the professor's tumblers of Swedish and take him to the bottom of the mountain. The narrator says that he can't believe the professor thought he could turn the club into the "cult of the scientist" , and he says that's the time to "boil us all to the breaking point of tungsten" . He then tells the men that they're going to have to go back to their rooms and eat their buns, which he says are the best food ever. They're not supposed to eat human food, he says, but they'll have to eat them anyway. He adds that he knows that the club has to avoid the "titans" all the time, but he'd rather live a life of passivity than live as a sheep. He wants to be a lion, not a sheep, so he tells them to shut up and grow up. He calls the professor a "slacker-looking pointy-haired goon" and says that if he were a human, he would be on the skull of a skull, blud but a smith would give him a bun. He goes on to say that the men have no right to be so big, since they've been born a little too small. He asks the men to stop talking so big and to grow up and leave him alone. He thinks that he has a right to talk like that, since he is a man.