`Trouble is: I’m a Jew, I have the survival instincts of a rat.’

--Patrick Modiano, La Place De L’ Etoile.

`Rats are intelligent mammals’ he answered calmly, almost with amusement. ‘They will probably outlive us. Their society, at any rate, is a good deal more stable than ours.’

--Michel Houellebecq, Submission.

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Posted September 20, 2016 (12.30 pm)

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/20/man-v-rat-war-could-the-long-war-soon-be-over