"I took a cab there and made this purchase because, Mrs. Wire, when I opened the window with out a screen in my room, a cockroach, a flying cockroach, flew right into my face and was followed by a squadron of others. Well! I do not have an Oriental, a Buddhistic tolerance for certain insects, least of all a cockroach and even less a flying one. Oh, I've learned to live reluctantly with the ordinary pedestrian kind of cockroach, but to have one fly directly into my face almost gave me convulsions! Now as for the window with out a screen, if a screen has not been put in that window by tomorrow, I will buy one for it myself and deduct the cost from next month's rent."

– Tennessee Williams. Vieux Carre

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