As a fictional reader,it turned out to be a very intersting form of dialectal ,expressing in-depth emotions one may feel after covering certain length of his life where he answers not only by reason but he terms his answer as outcome of a reason(which he did not encountered earlier). Not very out of world topic author chose to express but has explained a way to understand different recuuring thoughts in humans and linking them to their actions which follow after.
Chapter 9 certainely tries to connect you those emotions while a certain action you sense to follow.
Rest is you may put it to be.