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title	:	The Cockroach Papers : A Compendium of History and Lore
author	:	Schweid, Richard.
publisher	:	Four Walls Eight Windows
isbn10 | asin	:	1568581378
print isbn13	:	9781568581378
ebook isbn13	:	9780585203010
language	:	English
subject	Cockroaches, Cockroaches--Anecdotes, Human-animal relationships.
publication date	:	1999
lcc	:	QL505.5.S38 1999eb
ddc	:	595.7/28
subject	:	Cockroaches, Cockroaches--Anecdotes, Human-animal relationships.

Page iii The Cockroach Papers A Compendium of History and Lore Richard Schweid Four Walls Eight Windows New York / London

Page iv Copyright 1999 Richard Schweid Illustration credits: p. 7, 120-164 (versos) from The Cockroach; pp. 10, 11, 13, 14, 20, 33, 38, 57, 58, 65, 89, 91, 93, 168 (bottom) Dr. Betty Faber; p. 116 provided by Philip Barbour of The Syndicate, Birmingham, Alabama; p. 168 (top), reprinted with permission of Acta Entomologica Slovenica, December 1998, Vol. 6, No. 2: 71-78 and Dr. Thomas E. Moore Published in the United States by Four Walls Eight Windows 39 West 14th Street New York, NY 10011 http://www.fourwallseightwindows.com UK offices: Four Walls Eight Windows/Turnaround Unit 3 Olympia Trading Estate Coberg Road, Wood Green London N22 67Z First printing October 1999. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a database or other retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, by any means, including mechanical, electronic, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Schweid, Richard, 1946 The cockroach papers:a compendium of history and lore/Richard Schweid. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index. ISBN 1-56858-137-8 (paperback) 1. Cockroaches. 2. Cockroaches--Anecdotes. 3. Human-animal relationships. l. Title. QL505.5 .S38 1999 595.7'28 21--dc21 99-043049 Printed in Canada Interior design and typesetting: Anne Galperin 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Page v Acknowledgments It is customary here to thank people for helping me along the bumpy way that is any sort of writing project, and to declare that any mistakes, inaccuracies, or unpleasantries within these pages are wholly my own fault and responsibility. How much more necessary both of these tasks become if the subject of the writing elicits the sorts of reactions common when dealing with cockroaches. In addition to all those who were patient enough to answer my questions during interviews, thanks for kindness and assistance go out to Jos Manuel lvarez Flrez, Montse Ayuso, Carlos Bosch, Luisa and Vincenzo d'Arista, Susan and James Edmunds, Diane and Ezra Eichelberger, Celia Filipetto, James and Terilynn Graham Freedman, Donna Glassford, Mike Golden, Jeff Judd, Sue Katz, Silvia Komet, Alan and Andre LeGuire, Carmen Martnez, Emanuele Nastasi, Joan Salvat, Jay Sapir, Adele, Jean and David Schweid, Dan Stein, and Ornella Zoia. And, thanks to editor Kathryn Belden for her hard work to make the book better.

Page vi Neapolitan folk saying ogni scarrafone bello a mamma sua.

Page vii every cockroach is beautiful to its mother. Fig. O: Mamma & Son

Page viii Contents

Page ix Chapter 1 Saving All Sentient Beings 1 Chapter 2 The Mob 23 Chapter 3 La Zona 45 Chapter 4 Hambre 77 Chapter 5 A Bullet Don't Have Nobody's Name on It 105 Chapter 6 War 127 Chapter 7 Coexistence 155 Bibliography 173 Index 187

Page 1 Chapter 1 Saving All Sentient Beings In the summer of 1967, I was twenty-one years old and living in New York City. I had fled from a long childhood and adolescence in Nashville. I slept in the living room of a small, three-room apartment on the second floor of a Christopher Street brick building, half a block west of Sheridan Square. This place had a narrow metal shower built into a corner of the bedroom and the toilet was in a closet off the living room. The woman who paid the rent did so out of a monthly allowance from her family, and she was sleeping with a friend of mine. He moved in and brought a pair of friends with him, one of whom was myself. She was an open and generous soul, so the living arrangements were fine with her. There was a sofa in the small living room, and the two of us slept out there. I put the cushions on the floor night after night, month after month, and my friend Jeff did his best to make himself comfortable on the sprung springs of the sofa. Every so often, when we ran smack-dab out of cash, we would walk over to the pier on the Hudson River where ships docked with boxes of produce. A large group of men gathered each evening for a shape-up, which meant standing around in a loose cluster inside

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