"Let's get the hell out of here," said Hazel. If we did something as inexplicable and strange we'd probably be praying-so maybe they're praying." "The remarkable thing," said Doc, "isn't that they put their tails up in the air-the really incredibly remarkable thing is that we find it remarkable. Hazel turned one of the stink bugs over with the toe of his wet tennis shoe and the shining black beetle strove madly with floundering legs to get upright again. And in all the books there isn't one mention of the fact that they put their tails up in the air or why." "I looked them up recently-they're very common animals and one of the commonest things they do is put their tails up in the air. "Well, what they got their asses up in the air for?"ĭoc rolled up his wool socks and put them in the rubber boots and from his pocket he brought out dry socks and a pair of thin moccasins. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of. "Look at all them stink bugs," Hazel remarked, grateful to the bugs for being there. Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. And many of them stuck their tails up in the air. “On the black earth on which the ice plants bloomed, hundreds of black stink bugs crawled.
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