Dr. X selected a pair of detachable manipulator arms from his 
unusually large arsenal. Some of these had been copied from New Atlantan, 
Nipponese, or Hindustani designs and looked familiar to Hackworth; others, 
however, were bizarre naturalistic devices that seemed to have been torn loose 
from New Atlantan immunocules—evolved structures, rather than designed. 
The Doctor employed two of these arms to grip the cocklebur. It was an 
aluminum-covered megabuckyball in a sunburst of barbed spines, several of which 
were decorated with fragments of shishkebabed skin.