forty-nine days before
- After writing more of his religion paper, Miles visits Alaska, and she asks what W.H. Auden's last words were. When Miles can't produce, she quotes a line "you shall love your crooked neighbor / with all your crooked heart" from Auden's poem "As I Walked Out One Evening."
- Then the two of them go hunting for secrets in other students's rooms. Miles finds out that one student has hemorrhoids, one student collects Cabbage Patch kids, and one student draws herself nude for fun.
- Alaska also seeks some more, um, illicit collections in which women are often objectified. She finds many magazines, but the jackpot is a movie that Alaska and Miles watch to determine the plausibility and unrealistic nature of the plot and action.
- Predictably, Miles becomes turned on during the movie while Alaska berates its objectification of women. When it finishes, Alaska lies down to sleep.
- And Miles aches to sleep with her, just sleep and hold her innocently. Somewhat accurately, he describes her as "a hurricane" whereas he is only "drizzle" (49before.32).