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Orthopterology-- the study of cockroaches
Those Roaches
Orthopterology was only popular in one instance, and that was to deal with "them." As if not saying their names would make "them" go away. He wondered at the amount of fear "they" managed to strike in all sorts of people. He could understand sanitary concerns and even the horror of the occasional beastie in the ear, but he felt his roaches had something to offer the mind other than fear.
Wasn't it impressive, that "they" could learn the smells of their poisons and learn to avoid them? A pile of boric acid would do a infestee about as much good as a flyswatter. Actually, the swatter would be more useful-- one of the few things roaches couldn't withstand was a good, hard smash.
He wasn't saying he was going to cuddle a cockroach when he went to sleep. Orthopterology just thought a healthy respect for a natural survivor wasn't too far out of order. After all, "they" were an active and pervasive nuisance, but they certainly wouldn't be going away any time soon.
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