July 18, 2009
Ants, Nothing but Ants!
“Leiningen!” he shouted. “You’re insane! They’re not creatures you can fight–they’re an elemental–an ‘act of God!’ Ten miles long, two miles wide–ants, nothing but ants! And every single one of them a fiend from hell; before you can spit three times they’ll eat a full-grown buffalo to the bones. I tell you if you don’t clear out at once there’ll he nothing left of you but a skeleton picked as clean as your own plantation.”
– from “Leiningen versus the Ants,” Carl Stephenson. First published in Esquire, December 1938.
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Playing Fallout 3, I just read this followed by unmasking the AntAgonist and I’m on my way to kill the fire ant queen. Making me jumpy.