In this chapter, we are told that the story is purely fictional and that no similarity is made between the events of the story and real events. In fact, the only similarity between this story and the real world is the fact that it is set in a hotel in the middle of the night. The narrator tells us that this is because the hotel is a symbol of the "true god" and that the presence of such a mark is a sign of chaos. He tells the young lovers that he will help them to "stabilize the pheromone" .