5/18/2023 0 Comments From rats by robert sullivanWhere there are humans there must also be rats (except apparently in Alberta, Canada, where an effective state rodent-proofing policy has kept them gnashing their fangs on the border). Rats and humans live so close together that in built-up conglomerations they are virtually inseparable. In fact, the rat exterminator is the modern urban equivalent of the dragon slayer. Until we meet the foe eye to eye that is – and our stomachs churn at thought of their teeming breeding-grounds in our attics, and their endlessly gnawing incisors shredding our carpets and our cables. Buy Rats: A Year With New Yorks Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan (Paperback) now from Rough Trade - independent purveyors of great music. But to those who have never found a rat skulking, red-eyed and yellow-toothed, behind their bathroom pipes, there is probably something amusing about the job, something faintly ridiculous about the exterminator’s unending battle against a scuttling rodent as long as his forearm. Robert Sullivan - intrepid journalist, curious writer, fearful urban. In New York City, the rat exterminator (nowadays probably known as the Pest Control Manager) is as necessary a component of city life as the plumber, the electrician or the shrink. Rats is an acount of a year spent in a garbage-strewn alley in lower Manhattan.
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