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...longer have any desire to terrorize insects. It's not that I don't mind bugs--I do. The idea of camping outside repulses me, and the thought of a cockroach in my bathroom disgusts me. I refuse to coexist with them. But I don't want to kill them...
Some may ask themselves, "Why have I paid $23,000 for the cockroach scene from 'Temple of Doom?'" I, however, look at the situation as an opportunity to put what I've been taught these past few weeks into practice...
...wondering who was doing the dreaming. Might he not be the butterfly imagining it was a philosopher? Zhang has reproduced that pretty reverie, combining it with Kafka's Metamorphosis and shading it with The Fly. The question is now threefold: Is the narrator a person dreaming he is a cockroach or a cockroach dreaming it is a contemporary citizen of the People's Republic, or is there no difference between them...
...father's status has so declined that mental-health experts speak of a new male affliction: kitaku kyofu sho, or a "fear of returning home syndrome." A popular television commercial for an insecticide spray shows a father waking up one day to find he has turned into a cockroach. The ad warns housewives, "If you see a large cockroach, it might be your husband. Please check before you exterminate." Even men will sometimes admit that their privileged status in society isn't all roses. "Women know how to enjoy themselves more than men do," says a mid-level executive...
...concept, he firmly believes, is to achieve another of his goals: animal-powered flight. What kind of animal? MacCready has already drawn up some formulas and tentative contest rules that would permit use of any creature from a hippopotamus to a goldfish. He has even considered using a hissing cockroach. ("It has a little longer power cycle than the ordinary roach.") But he may settle for a dog. "There are already cases of dogs that love to join their masters in hang gliders," he muses, leaning back and staring into space. "There are dogs that happily get exercise...