This chapter's epigraph is from a famous poem by the English poet William Butler Yeats. It's a quote from a poem called "What's Wrong With the World?" in which the protagonist laments the fact that the world is full of contradictions and contradictions. The protagonist asks Yeats why the world has so many contradictions, and the poet replies that he doesn't know. He says that he's here to observe what's going on in the world, and that he can't do anything about it. He's only there to observe the cause and effect of failure, and he can only do so by following the rules of the universe. The dream master, he says, is not going to stop the soul magic that's already going on. He can only stop it if he wants to, but he can do so only if he follows the rules. In other words, if the dream master wants to stop his soul magic, he'll have to stop it right away. But if the dreamer wants to keep the magic going, then he can stop it later. The only problem, the protagonist says, with this is that there are many people who have been "failed" by the master's soul