Explore "The Mandrake" by Jorge Luis Borges on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Like the barometz, the plant known as the Mandrake borders on the animal kingdom, since it gives a cry when it is torn up; this cry can drive those who hear it mad. We read in Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, IV, iii):
And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad . . .