This chapter's epigraph is from the opening lines of the second chapter, "What the hell?" . In other words, it's not a quote from Shakespeare's play, but rather an epigraph from one of his own poems. It's from a poem called "The Body of Kwan--Yin" . The poem is about the body of a man who is aging, and the man in question is the vice-general of the village. He's been living in the village for a while, and he's worried that some ghosts are haunting the villagers. He tells the vice general to treat him to a special treatment tonight, so that when he grows old, he won't have to worry about him anymore.