This chapter's epigraph is from a famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Invisible Man." In this poem, a man is facing upward and a woman is facing downward, with a chain knife in one hand and a blazing tiger talisman in the other. This is a symbol of the sun and the moon, and it is symbolized by the sun's rays, the moon's light, and the earth's solidity. It is also the symbol of yin and yang, which are the elements that make up the human body. In this passage, we learn that the sun is the "mother's body," the moon