It is certainly a good fix for a player who used to get teased for his diminutive stature and absolutely hates the nickname he got because of his height — La Pulga, Spanish for The Flea.
Paintings from the likes of Caspar David Friedrich and Joseph Wright of Derby turned to the Moon as a central theme — often with small human figures, their backs to the viewer in quiet reflection.
Tazio was Enzo's polar opposite: physically diminutive but absolutely reckless, he did not have any qualms in completely wrecking his cars in order to get a victory.
His novelty had been that he was so short that he could barely see over the bull's withers, but there were other short fighters, and he had never succeeded in imposing himself on the public's fancy.
In adolescents, skeletal abnormalities become apparent, like short stature, and a broad chest with widely spaced nipples, low-set ears and arms that turn outward at the elbows, also called cubitus valgus.
Diminutive and softly spoken, Yassin, who dressed in a white shroud and used a wheelchair owing to a childhood accident, seemed to his followers to embody the suffering of his people.
The man who now appeared in the kitchen was small, mean looking and white faced, between fifty and seventy years old, and wearing a dirty old nightshirt.