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Jonathan Stark

Initially we thought it was just a personality quirk then someone suggested a mental disorder, you know, like bi-polar or even schizophrenia. It was an idea that caught on, I mean, the man was textbook symptomatic and none of us knew anybody personally to compare him too. He was just nuts and we called him the Rat.

I actually looked for prescriptions but didn’t find anything. I think for the others it was more of a fun way to poke back, to explain what defied explanation – a god myth telling of the rising and setting of the sun. For me it was a hunger to know what controlled the Rat’s heart and soul, how he could be so predictably unpredictable. I realize I’m speaking in melodramatic cliches but they fit him so.