Normal rat mating is presented as a structured ritual of male display, female interest, chasing, waiting, repeated play, mating, and family formation.
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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Jiang distinguishes humans from rats by saying humans can reason and adapt to new circumstances, while rats depend on fixed rules and cannot adapt when those rules break.
Jiang identifies the plague as bubonic plague spread by rats, known through DNA evidence, and says it had long been present across the connected world.
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"...No, no, no. If you actually study their society ants, monkeys, rats they live in an extremely rule based heavily ritualized world. Okay? So..."
"...does is she runs home and hides her and the male rat just stands outside and waits for her to come out. After some..."
"So if you're a rat mother you have a husband. Okay? Your understanding is the husband will protect you from strangers. Okay? Your understanding..."
"...actually the bubonic plague, okay? The bubonic plague. It's spread by rats. And we have DNA of this plague, okay? So we know the..."
"...I don't know what I think, in English, like, the sismic rat, like, the sibilance, the sibilance, I feel like, comes through a lot..."
"...to test or try to make experiment, just like we put rats into two maids, right? And try to find out if it's just..."
"...read Ch inese history there are lots of really famous st rat age ms Right So you look at S an Guo - Y..."
"leaves And this is a very very famous st rat agem from Chinese history And there are lots of these st rat age ms..."
"...a motorcycle problem. Oh, yeah, that's right. Because scooters are like rats. They're like everywhere. So if you're just walking in a park, suddenly..."
"...to eat authentically in China, you need to eat pig's brain, rats, locusts, you know... Look at your cheese, Nikolai."
"...is um trust how can you trust that person to not rat you out in this political struggle and the answer is well you..."
"...how do you trust members of your society not to um rat you out and the third is how do you work together for..."
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