This chapter's epigraph comes from a line in The Shawshank Redemption. It's a line from the play's title sequence, in which Shaw delivers a soliloquy in which he says, "I told you you were the dead man" . He's referring to the fact that Shaw's corpse has come forth from the ground and is about to fall to the ground. Shaw tells the audience that he's the one who's "going to hell" , and that he has to fight to get past his defenses. Shaw reminds us that this is