This chapter's epigraph is from a famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe. In this poem, Edgar is talking about the fact that he's going to have to kill a lot of people in order to survive. He's worried that if he kills too many people, he'll be eaten alive. He also worries that if they kill too many, they'll get eaten alive, too. He worries that they're going to kill him, too, and that he won't have enough time to kill all the people in the room before they kill him. He wonders if they should kill him first, so that he doesn't get eaten by the other people, and then they can kill him later. He thinks about this a lot, and he realizes that he can't kill himself by killing himself. He decides to kill himself first, since it's easier to kill someone who's already dead than it is to kill yourself by killing yourself.