Wednesday, April 16, 2025

R-T, Margaret, and the Rats of NIMH by Jane Leslie Conly: Book Review


Started: April 12, 2025

(This is my first time reading this book, so according to my new rules, I'm doing this as a video only review.)




The quote I alluded to is from Nicodemus from Chapter 21 of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.  The exact quote is as follows:
Surely rats would have developed reading and writing, judging by the way we took to it. But what about machines? What about cars and airplanes? Maybe not airplanes. After all, monkeys, living in trees, must have felt a need to fly, must have envied the birds around them. Rats may not have that instinct.
In the same way, a rat civilization would probably never have built skyscrapers, since rats prefer to live underground. But think of the endless subways-below-subways-below-subways they would have had.





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