The American writer Joyce Carol Oates, published "<em>Against Nature</em>" in 1988, an essay criticizing how nature is portrait and romanticized in literature; suggesting instead not take anything for granted.
She realizes that her body is a potpourri of complex structures inhabited by her conscience, and comments that "<em>the “I” doesn’t exist</em>".
The children would be the reflexive pronoun.
<span>The organism with snake like tentacles around it's mouth is a hydra.</span>