This chapter's epigraph is from a famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Invisible Man." Longfellow's poem asks, "Is there something else that hurts?" . It's a question Longfellow asks himself in this chapter. He asks himself whether or not his hand is still hurt, and if it's because of him. He says that his hand hurts when he's "swollen" . He then asks himself if the pain is because of something else, like his "wild puppy" , or his "money, power and sex." . .