This chapter's epigraph comes from a soliloquy by the Master of the Flying Saucers, who tells the audience that he has just applied the "blood hallucination" to the blood of the River Styx. He says that he feels cold and that he still has a long way to go before he learns everything he needs to know. He tells the fan that he was tricked into believing that there is another world beneath the water, and that anyone who enters the new world will be killed. The swords of the "horrid ordeal" are still there, he says, and they can "fuse and regenerate" . The spree will end, he concludes, when he can find the weakness of the