Word: leggedness
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The radical press is quiet. A bearded man in a work-shirt and with tape on the bottom of his tennis shoes sits cross-legged on the floor and bows his head.
The six-legged hero appears as a villain in Chaucer, Shakespeare and John Donne. Accordingly, the book lives up and down to its title. It even includes a bit of anonymous erotica-"The Autobiography of a Flea," whose expository style even Nabokov might envy. "I was engaged," begins the flea...
"You know, the skins of those thin-legged little girls who faced the mob in Little Rock marked them as Negro, but the spirit which directed their feet is the old uni versal urge toward freedom."
Durrell dutifully and deftly relates such episodes, customarily avoiding the smug coziness that tends to afflict family anecdotage as a genre. But the boy who grew into a topflight zoologist was always slightly more interested in the doings of four-legged animals than two. At picnics, he was absorbed, not...
The desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) is a hairy, six-legged, doublejawed grasshopper whose behavior has been exasperation and puzzling mankind ever since his appearance in Exodus as one of the ten plagues inflicted on Egypt by a wrathful Jehovah. Much of the time he is a normal grasshopper, evenly dispersed...