Rat Catching (ISBN 0962299707) is a book by actor/filmmaker Crispin Glover. The book is a form of collage, reworked from Studies in the Art of Rat Catching, a 1896 non-fiction book now in the public domain. Pictures from the book, as well as the book itself, were shown in the opening credits of the 2003 film, Willard, starring Crispin Glover. The book also forms one segment of Glover's live slide show readings which are performed during particular screenings of his self-financed films What Is It? and It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine..
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“I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one’s appetite is not too keen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)