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Re: RAT rat is...



I love it that you have listed sitting through the Ring cycle as part of the list of the rings of hell. 
----- Original Message -----
From: Cat Hebert
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 6:58 AM
Subject: Re: RAT rat is...

Who the hell is Cat Hebert? and why does someone named Cat know so much about kinds of rats? 
 
Jack
 
I am helping to set the agenda for the RAT Conference in Philadelphia.
 
And... I am, in fact, familiar with hell -- having gone through military basic training in Texas in July; having worked with groups of non-sedated hallucinating psychotics in one of R.D. Laing's cottage systems in England; having sat through the entire Ring cycle in Frankfurt.
 
The name "cat" stands for a "secret" animal name (in the Native American tradition [great-grandmother]). The animal is a creature which both rats and house cats will try to avoid if possible.
 
I just stumbled on the rat descriptions, and they seemed to me to be a nice biological metaphor for the process of different small theaters.
 
Cheers,
Cat Hebert