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RATS I have known and loved

The thing to understand about people Rat is that once you have specified that you know what they do, they shaping very well. . . or they walk right in your life forever. Half measures are not their forte.

It's weird. But according to many Chinese, the most endearing quality of Rat people is honesty. I prefer to interpret this variable Oriental ¬ ty of honesty as something closer to fair play, or simply a great respect for justice. Rats do not witness happenings in which excessive par ¬ dentiality is exposed unless, of course, "said the rat is the promulgator of iniquity.

The Rat person has a character with two faces. Outwardly, he is generous and joyful, he seems calm and balanced. Inside, the rats harbor excessive amounts of interest in the form of greed and acquisitiveness. What distinguishes subjects from your computer Rat ¬ nary miser is their deep respect for the fair distribution of benefits starting with those they deem worthy of it.

Rat standards are high. They are not easily seduced by the rhetoric of small and gossip. If a person chooses to Rat-you, it will not hide his feelings. Once he decided to make friends with someone, both hospitality and kindness extended across previously impenetrable borders.

Given this set of strict rules that generally creates the Rat

for himself, if one of his "chosen few" ultimately betrayed, or in any way trying to trick him, he is capable of both revenge and unreason ¬ reasonable requests for revenge. The rats never accept being petted or taken lightly. In business as in love partnerships, they are less cross ¬ Ruth.

Here is a tale told Rat. At the corner of my house in Paris, he spent two American expatriates, side by side in a pair of wooden houses. These houses were built shelters gardening. Long ago, in the forties after the war (before the French building codes had become as strict as they are today), we could still find jewels in the city limits and with minimum investment, turning them into livable homes. Times have changed. Or so I learned from my neighbor lady Rat Bor ¬ Claire Augustus (born 1948).

Claire came to inform me that her husband Nick wanted to convert a third tool small hut in their garden in a guest house. She quickly said: "While we were in Majorca this summer, the organization met to discuss the construction of zoning. Our request for a building permit con ¬ was denied. I am so angry I could spit! "Claire sighed with controlled fury and continued." From what I under stand ¬, our neighbor neighbor Paul Kradlow at this meeting. He is president of the [condominium In France, all buildings are Condomina ¬ Sees. Each has his own apartment.] Ordinarily what Paul says goes. I just do not understand. We left everything in the hands of Kradlow. Paul insists it is not his fault. He says he made a very convincing speech in our defense. This small guest house not to disturb anyone. Except for Paul, no one can even see the cabin. The decision is unfair, but we are legally unable to appeal. "His eyes filled with the haze of frustration home ¬ owner.

Two weeks after hearing Claire diatribe against unreason ¬ able vote, I came across Paul Kradlow in Montparnasse artists' haunt. Paul is a painter. Although it has never been my favorite person, we were neighbors for so long that we always smile and nod to each other in public places. That day Paul called me unusual at his table. "Sit down a minute, will you? he said. I was sitting.

"Well," said Paul. "I suppose you've heard of their plan wild



transform their club house guests? "I nodded. He blathered on:" Of course, as president of the condominium.