The chapter opens with a description of the shark at the aquarium. It's terrifying, says the narrator, and he's thinking that the way they're treating the shark is more terrifying than the one that's just returned. He's also thinking about the fact that they've been arguing about whether or not to eat the tentacles of the octopus. He wants to eat them, he says, because xi likes them. He tells the ladies to pack up the tentacles and bring them back for him to eat. He thinks that the two women are getting along fine, but he still wants to argue with them about the rock. He says that he can do it himself, but that he'll have to buy the rock from someone else. Finally, the narrator realizes that it's been five days since the last time he spoke with him. He wonders if he'd been dying to surrender himself to him.