The chapter found at page 127 described the final years of the pirate Bar-Enoch, who had taken the Staff of Tier from the dead hands of its creator Tier and carried it away on his ship. As time went on, the Staff began to make Bar-Enoch go mad as he became paranoid and believed enemies were plotting to steal the Staff from him. Eventually the Staff became the pirate's only reason for existence, and fears began to plague him, since if he could defy Tier's cruse, others might be able to. As Bar-Enoch's madness grew he began to shake his fist at the sun and cursed it for lighting the world so that his enemies could find him easier. His crewmen heard him talking to himself in his cabin, mumbling of plans 'to crawl into the body of a turtle where the sun could not reach him and live forever, pr