Summary

The chapter opens with a brief description of Jeffrey and Emma looking at themselves and each other in a bathroom mirror. After this, Jeffrey looks into his mirror and contemplates whether his reflected right ear is his actual right ear, mirroring a prior statement from his father. Later, Emma calls Jeffrey, telling him that Stak has decided that he will not return to school and will discontinue his practice of ju-jitsu. Jeffrey offers to speak to him the day after tomorrow. They meet in a restaurant. Stak describes his new way of thinking, he no longer knows things once, but instead he thinks about them (he later explains that he no longer cares about the weather either, regardless of the fact that he was previously obsessed with temperatures). Jeffrey takes Emma and Stak to an art museum exhibit that Jeffrey thinks may...