In this chapter, we meet the "sweetest man" of the play. He's the one who invites us to dinner, but he doesn't invite us to the theater. Instead, he invites us over to his apartment, where he's having a drink with a guy named "Tappytoon" . The two of them talk about the play they're working on together, which is set in the real world. The guy says that he likes the script the playwright sent him, because it's "imagination" , and that he knows the guy who's going to play the non-human in the play has a "method of life" that's not human. He says that if the guy isn't a human, he still has to have had a way of living as a "nonhuman" because humans are watching him, and he thinks that humans still have a sort of distance from nonhumans. The "air about you" that makes people want to look at you bothers him, he says. He asks the room service to let him know when he can meet with the director, and the guy says he'll do so next week. The air is "bursting with domination," and the two are embarrassed that they didn't make it all the way back to the hotel. The narrator asks the guy what he wants to eat, but the guy refuses to tell him.