" . . . since I was a little pup," A. Dog says as he holds up a magnifying glass to get a better view of the two species of fleas making a circus out of devouring his body (along with A. Horsefly). It's too bad that Mel Gibson's character did not have a similar viewing device with which to entertain himself at the conclusion of BRAVEHEART, so that he could have expired getting a bang out of his Death Process--rather than going out with a whimper. Where some viewers may detect a hint of Racism in A HORSE FLY FLEAS, given its stereotypical depiction of Native Americans as whooping, arrow-slinging territorial terrorists, more people may become nauseated if they pause to ponder FLEAS' Real Life Truth: Our Human Bodies are made up of about 95% bacteria, and only some of the remaining 5% of our cells carry the Human Genome. On the other hand, it's very bittersweet to reflect that the author of THE CONQUEROR WORM--Edgar Allen Poe--was so far ahead of his time that he missed seeing FLEAS by almost a full century: This would have been right up his blind alley!
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