Shrieks. Staccatoed footsteps. PSSSSSSSSSSST! of aerosol spray. Another roach lies writhing on a sidewalk in España, chased from house and home by indignant women. Ningunas de los mujeres españolas aplasta las cucarachas con sus zapatos. (No Spanish women squash cockroaches with their shoes.) Shivers and goosebumps testify to their repulsion, the personal affront.
La Cucaracha, the corrido popularized in the Americas during the Mexican Revolution may have emerged in Spain much earlier. A compilation of folk music published in Sevilla in 1883 references earlier lyrics alluding to the Reconquista in 1492.
1492. The last year of the 69th Chinese sexegenary cycle, a yin water bug year. Waterbug, another name for cockroach. Spread throughout the world via ships.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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