Memorable Quotes from Stephen Macht
1 quoteObservation of Flea Behavior Under Microscope
Phillip Payne
Doctor, I'd like to show you something. You too, Chee. Now there are four species of flea on this slide: carnivore, dog, X-Cheopis, and bat. I'm going to put a blood spot on the slide. Now what do you see?
Doctor
Well, the bat flea is ingesting the blood.
Phillip Payne
Keep looking. Now what do you see?
Doctor
It's a bacilli. And virulent.
Walker Chee
You mind if I take a look at that?
Phillip Payne
Go ahead.
Doctor
Where did you get that blood specimen?
Phillip Payne
Same place as the fleas: the dead sheep.
Walker Chee
What kind of bacilli is that?
Phillip Payne
Bubonic plague.
Walker Chee
Now how the hell do you know that?
Phillip Payne
It's my business to know.
Walker Chee
What do you think, Doc?
Doctor
Well, it certainly could be plague. What mystifies me is the loss of blood and the stench of ammonia and the bites. I've never seen bites like that.
Phillip Payne
The bite marks come from the incisor teeth of vampire bats. The blood loss and the ammonia are one and the same.
Walker Chee
Meaning what?
Phillip Payne
Vampires consume one and half times their weight in blood. They piss the excess out so they can get airborne again. That excess blood turns into ammonia.
Phillip Payne
Make no mistake. There's a highly intelligent colony of vampire bats roosting in a great cave somewhere in these canyons. Their attacks, inevitably, will be drawn closer to mass human dwellings. And with these attacks come the bubonic plague. That's what you've got to face, Chee.
Walker Chee
What about placing the reservations under quarantine?
Phillip Payne
No, that won't help. You can't protect people from nocturnal sweeps of thirty or forty thousand vampire bats.
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