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Articles marked Sean WilseySean Wilsey is the author of Oh the Glory of It All, a memoir, and the editor, with Matt Weiland, of State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America, which will be published in the US in September. From the London Review dated 17 March 2005Some of them can read
“Rats have eaten cadavers in the New York City coroner’s office. Rats have attacked and killed homeless people sleeping on the streets of Manhattan. Brown rats survived nuclear testing in the Pacific by staying deep down in their burrows. ‘Rats that survive to the age of four are the wisest and the most cynical beasts on earth,’ an exterminator told the reporter Joseph Mitchell sixty years ago. ‘A trap means nothing to them, no matter how skilfully set. They just kick it around until it snaps; then they eat the bait. And they can detect poisoned bait a yard off. I believe some of them can read.’ A pest control technician – as they’re now called, ‘exterminator’ having a deceptive air of finality – told Sullivan that a ‘sniper with a night-vision scope’ is the only way to kill a rat of the semi-literate kind.” [ read more . . . ] Selected bibliography
Search the web for Sean Wilsey: Google · Yahoo! · AltaVista · Wikipedia In the LRB archiveDiary: Sean Wilsey Goes Slow · 17 July 2008 Some of them can read · 17 March 2005
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