The chapter opens with a description of the apartment building on the 13 th floor of the building. It is described as being empty except for two rooms, which are occupied by a young boy who refuses to be admitted to a mental hospital and demands to return immediately to repay his debt to the hospital. The boy is accompanied by his father, who tells him that the boy has lost his bead and is demanding to be brought back immediately. When the boy is brought back, he exclaims, "What delicacy is that?" The boy's father tells him to hurry and find out what is wrong with the apartment. The young boy is confused by the apartment's strange appearance and by the fact that he has been taken to the "book"