The chauvinist whose wife tells him he is useless in "The Spheric Man," for example, wets the bed and acquires a strange illness that, for reasons the doctors cannot fathom, causes him to curl up into a perfectly spherical fetal position.
例如〈人球〉中那個被妻子斥責為「沒有用的東西」的大男人，竟然尿床，還得怪病；全身像母體內的胎兒一樣，彎腰拱背縮頸，把頭埋在胸膛，雙手緊抱收折起來的雙腳，讓兩腳掌貼著屁股，捲成一個相當完美的圓球形，連醫學博士也查不出病因。