This chapter's epigraph comes from a line in the play's opening sequence: "I wonder if the things that yang chao gave me to eat really works?" This is a reference to the fact that, in addition to being able to see things, animals can also have their own psychic abilities. This is the first time we've seen a creature with this ability, and we're not sure if it's the same creature we saw in the previous chapter, "The Lion Head," or the "Mata Man," or even the "Wasp Man." We're also not sure whether this is a new creature, or if this is just the latest in a long line of creatures that have had this ability before. The wasp man, for example, was once stung by a lion's head, and before that, by a mantis man