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...janitor at the Audubon, Iowa, high school, A.E. ("Brick") Kness, used to watch mice with a hunter's eye. For a while he even allowed them to nibble contentedly in the lunchroom just so he could study their weaknesses. Brick Kness was not going to resort to easy or familiar solutions. This was the Roaring Twenties. When Americans did things right in those days, they invented something new to do it with...
When his magic moment finally came, Brick Kness fused knowledge of mouse and machine into a grand idea, cheap, original and efficient. The end result was not merely a footnote to the history of technology, it was the founding of a family dynasty...
Just last summer three of Brick Kness's grandchildren took over management of the multimillion-dollar corporation that now produces what everybody in Albia, Iowa (pop. 4,000), simply refers to as "the trap." The young Knesses are remarkably similar to their elders. The invention has been handed down from father to son not merely as a business but as a way of life...
...paddle sweeps the mouse into captivity. The Knesses have made a number of small changes in the original design. Yet the shape of the openings has always remained an elongated oval, something like a human eye. Is this the secret? "Truth is, we don't know," says Brick's son Mike. "The mice aren't telling...
...written about people's thoughts and feelings. The scenes are based on factual accounts of what actually occured, and the thoughts and feelings were expressed or described by former guards, patients, and relations of murdered patients...For me this was necessary in order to take the reader behind the brick walls and barred windows and into the minds of those who lived and died inside Farview...