This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous poem by the English poet William Butler Yeats. It's a poem in which the poet laments the loss of his beloved sister, who has been dead for three years. The poem ends with a soliloquy by the poet, in which he laments that he has been unable to find his sister. He says that he is now in the spirit realm, where he can protect himself against the evil of the world. He wants to tell his sister the truth, but he doesn't want her to think that he's trying to distract her from the competition.