And on a less literary note: Dan 1, Fruit Flies 0. I discovered that they were obsessing over a dinner plate which had been rinsed clean but was not yet scrubbed and so, washed and dried said plate and then attacked with my trusty “Raid Flying Insect Spray,” calculated to destroy wing’ed pestilence and probably also calculated to reduce the lifespan of cats and drunks by a couple of years. No Pyrrhic victory that, I’ll sacrifice a year or two if the remainder are free of fruit flies.