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Look at our education system, promoting a moral code calibrated for the rat-holes of a singularly corrupted society.
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Look at our education system, promoting a moral code calibrated for the rat-holes of a singularly corrupted society.
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Look at our education system, promoting a moral code calibrated for the rat-holes of a singularly corrupted society.
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The article goes on to discuss genre rat-holes and how some authors (like Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box) are crossing genre boundaries into mainstream fiction, or vice versa.
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The article goes on to discuss genre rat-holes and how some authors (like Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box) are crossing genre boundaries into mainstream fiction, or vice versa.
February 2007 2007
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They were both pretty much rat-holes if I remember correctly.
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Excep for the sake of love, which is above being mersnary, fourteen shillings a wick was a LITTLE too strong for two such rat-holes as he lived in.
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I first nailed thin bits of wood over the rat-holes in the floor, and then covered it with
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Four days in which to comb the rat-holes of Limehouse and Chinatown -- four days in which to ferret out, somewhere in the mazes of East End, the lair of Kathulos.
The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005
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He went upstairs to see some rat-holes that Skinner said would justify a trap — they certainly were enormous — and discovered that the room in which the Food of the Gods was mixed with meal and bran was in a quite disgraceful order.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004
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