One Hundred Years of Solitude

insect on the face of the earth,
had already been the victim
of slippers in the Old
Testament, but that since the
species was definitely
resistant to any and all
methods of extermination,
from tomato dices with borax
to flour and sugar, and with
its one thousand six hundred
three varieties had resisted
the most ancient, tenacious,
and pitiless persecution that
mankind had unleashed