/lit/ - Literature

The deeply unsettling Wikipedia page for "Cockroaches in Popular Culture" includes such phrases as:

>Because of their long, persistent association with humans, cockroaches are
>In Arabic and other eastern societies, sometimes a traditional method to protect books and scrolls was a metaphysical appeal to "Kabi:Kaj" (كبيبكج/كَبِيكَج), the "King of the Cockroaches." By appealing to the king to protect a manuscript, cockroaches of less nobility (or lesser insects) would refrain from intruding on documents which could be eaten by the king only.
>Naked Lunch — the main character, William Lee's "case worker" appears to him in the form of large cockroach that speaks through a hole in its abdomen. Later, this cockroach appears again as a hybrid of a cockroach/typewriter that has a keypad on its face.
>Revolt of the Cockroach People, an autobiographical(???!!!!) novel by Oscar Zeta Acosta,