Microkhan by Brendan I. Koerner

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The Not-So-Delicate Art of Shin-Kicking

June 29th, 2009 · 3 Comments

There’s a great passage in Luc Sante‘s Low Life, in which he recounts the 19th-century New York City spectacle of man-versus-rat fights. A human competitor wearing heavy boots was placed in a ring with a swarm of hungry rats, and challenged to stomp as many to death as possible without suffering terrible injury. It’s quite […]

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