The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #90668 Message #1720653
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
17-Apr-06 - 08:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: King Rat by James Clavell
Subject: RE: BS: King Rat by James Clavell
Bobad quoted someone else, to this effect:
"a prisoner who specialized in trapping rats for food."
Not quite right (either quoter or quotee). King Rat did not CATCH rats for food; he RAISED rats underneath the huts, for food.