Doctor Rat

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In addition, Doctor Rat’s defense of the Learned Professor’s experiments rests on a persistent strain of misguided nationalism. I still remember Philip Schofield sitting there with what looked like my drawing of Mumm-Ra sitting on his desk, which he never showed. The prose is almost musical in its quality, and the visual images that the author constructs are vivid and believable.

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It's a poignant and painful story with real tragic depth, and really makes you think that this ecological message written back in 1977 sadly went unheard as we have continued to destroy the animal and natural world and are now finally reaping what we've sowed.

Castrated at birth, Doctor Rat spends his days amongst the various other animals in the laboratory, ranting about the absolute necessity of the experiments being performed here. Started out as a joke, then a horror story, then some philosophical mumbo jumbo, followed by a trance, then chaos, and finally, debris.

From letters signed by Disney himself to classic children’s books or ephemera, be sure to check out some of the collectible Walt Disney books on Biblio! The randomness, the flaws and the madness contained within these pages made for a love-hate reading experience. At the same time, it's lovely the way the author boldly, deftly and artfully inhabits the minds of a variety of animal characters including a rat, dog, tortoise, elephant, rhino and sloth.The rebellion, facilitated by a broadcasted orchestral concert for whales, snares the entire animal kingdom. He’s sensitive chap and it was his exquisite sensitivity that caused him to dream up the item that’s become the latest rage here at the lab: the fabulous removal of the eggs from a female rat’s body—to the tail, to the ear, to the stomach. Kotzwinkle won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for DOCTOR RAT in 1977, and he has also won the National Magazine Award for fiction.