A man of […] thoroughly subservient character

They're bringing you some morph before long. […] The tube has its own needle, and the medic jabs it in like he has done it a million times, then marks Chickenfeed's forehead so the Rear will know he's already had morphine.

Solanum poniferum Indicum folio rotundo. Indian Applebearing Nightshade with round leaves. This plant being onely mentioned by Monarus, in his history of those simple medicines, that come from the West Indies, ...

So both books form a unity and sequence, the contents of which not only describe his personal sufferings but also forge the first and decisive link from his to our postholocaust generation.