The narrator explains that angels can manipulate things they symbolize, for example, delusions can manipulate. He compares angels to delusional angels, who can manipulate their own delusions. For example, he says, an angel can manipulate a person's desire to live happily with him. He says that if a person wants to live with him, he can stay in his body as long as he wants. In other words, if he wants to be happy, then he can live with the angel even if he dies. The narrator says that even if death separates them, they can still live together.