Now, now. Don't be rude.

Quickly he turned back, his shoes digging in, churning up the sand as he scurried along the beach. The next thing he knew—ooff—he was flat on the ground, his head slamming against the sandy surface.

These plants fill the interstices between the grasses and tiny shrubs that make the outer, fuller form of the niggerhead.

Something which could later be interpreted as hysteria – a disorder marked by palpitations, migratory pain, breathing difficulties and the globus hystericus – might be attributed to a wandering uterus.