Word: rodent
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From deification to demonization, and every stage in between, attitudes toward cats have been confused, variable, peculiar, consuming, jittery and, ultimately, baffling. Those sinuous forms represented in Egyptian art, valued as rodent-chasers by farmers, or draped luxuriously over an apartment radiator have elicited the best and worst from mankind in the 5,000 years since their domestication. The dog may be man's best friend, but the cat is his most perplexing one, if, indeed...
...summer at Cornell was full of such bizarre characters. There was the Rodent--one of the most vile and obnoxious creatures ever to crawl the streets of Ithaca. He wore the same football jersey torn at the letters to every class enabling him to examine his bellybutton at leisure. There was Greek the gambler: Captain kirk the pinball wizard: and his roommate Studly the womanizer. There was the Mad Typist who lived down the hall from my dingy basement cell never slept and ingested a dozen No-Doz daily and Howard Machine the visiting professor from Britain who never really...
...three people whose inter-connected lives demonstrate just how accurate Laborit's conclusions are. If you still cling to the belief that man is a superior and complex creature whose existence can never be fathomed, Laborit will probably convince you that man is nothing more than an extremely intelligent rodent--with neuroses. Resnais and Gruault don't question Laborit's rectitude for a second; their film is not so much a work of art as it is a compilation and inter-mingling of case studies orchestrated to fit precisely into the doctor's insightful but rather rigid scheme of things...
...work." Much of that work is filled with private references: the bakery of his Brooklyn childhood is the scene of In the Night Kitchen, where another early hero, Oliver Hardy, is hard at work. The child's name is Mickey, in honor of Disney's rodent. The fearful, cheerful creatures in one of his best-known books recall adult visitors almost half a century ago: "They'd say, 'You're so cute I could eat you up.' And I knew if my mother didn't hurry up with the cooking, they probably would...
January 7. Today was a productive one for Shulamith and me. Working around the clock, we induced strangulation in a mouse. This was accomplished by coaxing the rodent to ingest healthy portions of Gouda cheese and then making it laugh. Predictably, the food went down the wrong pipe, and choking occurred. Grasping the mouse firmly by the tail, I snapped it like a small whip, and the morsel of cheese came loose. Shulamith and I made voluminous notes on the experiment. If we can transfer the tailsnap procedure to humans, we may have something. Too early to tell...