Can you name these characters associated with mosquitoes? In which which books do they appear, and who are the authors?
1 This architect tried to escape life by working in a leper colony in the mosquito-ridden Belgian Congo. "Discomfort irritates our ego like a mosquito-bite," Dr Colin told him. "But suffering is a different matter - with it we become part of the Christian myth." "Teach me how to suffer," said the architect. "I only know mosquito bites."
2 Typing his opinions, as a representative of the insect world, on the basis of man's claims to superiority, he wrote: "I never saw a city full of men manage to be as happy as a congregation of mosquitoes who have discovered a fat man on a camping trip."
3 Devoting his life to pleasure, the Duke of Mantua held a masque. Monteverdi had set a poem to music for a soprano. Then clouds of mosquitoes descended in frenzied attack. The soprano would not sing, she said, with a hundred hot needles in her face. This 16-year-old from Novellara, unbitten, sang instead. The Duke's face sharpened with a hunter's instinct. He had sighted the prey!
4 "It is this name I heard a woman call you in sluggish Venice. You turn your head towards your tail and smile. Your small, high, hateful bugle in my ear ... A yell of triumph as you snatch my scalp. Blood, red blood, Supermagical Forbidden liquor."
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5 This eccentric American inventor took his family to Honduras, heading upriver in a launch for Mosquitia. Stuck at Jeromima, he built a house. The only sounds were of smacks when mosquitoes were slapped. He made his family stay in a mosquito-proof gazebo after dark. With them he had brought "a warehouse of copper pipe".
6 "That loud hum in Sausalito/Isn't caused by a mosquito/Or anything that flies above/ - But by fish when they're in love./ California's famed resort/Gets more song than sleepers wish ..." from this fish.
7 This colonel fought alongside Nelson on the Mosquito Coast, slugging it out with the Spanish over the mahogany forests. Amid clouds of mosquitoes, settlers escaped beingbitten to death by walking around all night inmany layers of clothes. The raid suffered a mortality rate of almost 98% from disease.
Bookwise answers: 1 Querry; A Burnt Out Case (Greene); Heinemann 2 archy the crockroach; the archy and mehitabel omnibus (Don Marquis); Faber 3 Isabella; Masque of the Gonzagas (Colvin); Arcadia Books 4 Winged Victory: The Mosquito (Lawrence); The Penguin Book of Animal Verse 5 Allie Fox; The Mosquito Coast (Theroux); Penguin 6 Plain-finned Midshipman Fish; The Learned Hippopotamus (Ewart); Hutchinson 7 Colonel Edward Marcus Despard; The Unfortunate Colonel Despard (Jay); Bantam