Wilhelm Jensen. Construction (№ 422475)

This means that already in ancient times this vile creature was the scourge of mankind, more evil and ineradicable than scorpions, poisonous snakes, tigers and sharks, which caused only physical harm to their victim, and from which one could protect oneself by reasonable measures. But there was no escape from the common housefly; it, in the end, broke, upset, destroyed the spiritual essence of man, his ability to think and work, all inspiration and all artistic perception.