In "Hannibal Rising", young Hannibal Lecter searches Paris for a Suzumushi (鈴虫), the Japanese bell cricket. He was in love with his Japanese auntie and wanted to surprise her with the ring of the suzumushi. It is most refined to enjoy the insect's love call. In China, I saw a cricket fighting match but I am a rather gross spirit who did not appreciate the sport. Wiki says that
the Cricket masters pick the strongest warriors and then train them using mouse whiskers or yard grass to be even more aggressive. To promote prowess and focus, a cricket needs to have sex before combat, and the fighting space must be free of pollutants like perfume, smoke and alcohol fumes. Doping with drugs like Ecstasy is a problem, since a high cricket is a better fighter, plus his opponent will detect chemical enhancement and turn tail.
2 comments:
Dog fighting and bull fighting might be vile forms of cruelty, but cricket fighting seems quite civilized to me. Is this vertebrate chauvinism on my part?
I dont know. Japanese are very refined, you have to invest a lot of imagination to be excited by a cricket fight. No blood (red or green), no ferocious victory cries. Quite insipid for the uninitiated.
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