How I Gave Up Bug Latin and Became a Better Person

October 26, 2006 By: Marshall Cutchin

“‘Those were Maccaffertiums over the riffles this evening,’ he lectured this would-be impressor as he pulled the specimens he’d collected out of that jar, ‘and you said you were using an Isonychia. No wonder you didn’t do well.'” John Street describes how a journey through elitism led to betraying a favorite stream, resisting the temptations of fame, and finally foreswearing Latin forever. In the Clarion (Pennsylvania) News.