The Sultan of Splat

摘要

We are standing inside the small and somewhat seedy brick and cement bus depot in Gainesville, Florida, waiting for the 3:10 Greyhound to roll in from wherever it's rolling in from, and Mark Hosteller is telling me how all entomologists are weird. This, coming from a man who uses tweezers to pick dead bugs off the windshields of buses. Anyway, it seems Hosteller, a 31-year-old Ph.D. candidate in zoology at the University of Florida, used to live with a bunch of zoologists, all of whom kept various oddball research specimens stored in jars in the communal refrigerator. "So when I was dating," says Hostetler, "one of the indicators of how long a relationship was going to last was the reaction the woman would have when she opened the refrigerator door."