In Amy Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter, Great-Granny Liu believes that one of these creatures is "feasting on her brain," and Ferdinand Bardamu finds himself sorting them for the Port of New York in Céline's Journey to the End of the Night.
In Amy Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter, Great-Granny Liu believes that one of these creatures is "feasting on her brain," and Ferdinand Bardamu finds himself sorting them for the Port of New York in Céline's Journey to the End of the Night. A steel one is the titular entity of a Yevgeny Zamyatin play, and the discomfort caused by Italian ones forces the eponymous canine of Virginia Woolf's Flush to return to his owners.  Their most famous literary appearance is in the title of a poem in which the speaker uses the analogy of the mingled blood within it to try to seduce a woman. For 10 points, name this insect that "suck'd me first, and now sucks thee" in a John Donne poem.
In Amy Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter, Great-Granny Liu believes that one of these creatures is "feasting on her brain," and Ferdinand Bardamu finds himself sorting them for the Port of New York in Céline's Journey to the End of the Night.
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