Nerve supply to the skin the kind of sensory inputs which project to a specific region of the primary somatosensory cortex. Groups of nerve terminals located in the different layers of the skin are categorized depending on whether the skin is hairy, nonhairy, or an exposed mucous membrane. The hairy parts of the body such as the forearm or the leg have two groups of nerve endings: those that end along with the hair follicles, and also with the arborizations of unmyelinated axons which are referred to as “free” nerve endings because they are served by both myelinated and unmyelinated axons. Nonhairy skin, such as
In the Castle of My Skin boy's life taking place against the background of dramatic changes in the society in which he lives. The book's title is taken from a couplet in Derek Walcott's early work "Epitaph for the Young: XII Cantos" (1949): "You in the castle of your skin / I the swineherd." "In the Castle of My Skin" has been characterised by Sandra Pouchet Paquet as an "autobiographical novel of childhood and adolescence written against the anonymity and alienation from self and community the author experienced in London at the age of twenty-three." Lamming himself has described the context in which the novel was