The chapter opens with a soliloquy by Enos. Enos complains that he never sleeps and that he's always moving. He's a "diesel-fueled turbine engine" . He tells us that there are two types of people: those who sleep like a "damn carrot" , and those who just "sleep like a vegetable." Enos says that he finished his comic book pages and is going to get some of them from his buddy, Jeff. He says that his roommate is a "fucking genius" and that the town is "sucks" because it's "cold out." He also says that the police are there to protect Enos when he gets promoted to a manager at the bar, when Brian gets his first gig at a "bar on sunset," and when Omario continues to live on "rice and tap water," even if it means that he has to "live on the rice and tapwater." He says the police will protect him until he gets his "comic book submission" to a publisher, and then he'll be out of the "tangle of poverty." But then, when he