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The four monkeys comes from the Tosho-gu Shrine in Nikko, Japan, where a carving of three apes resides above the entrance. The first covering his ears, the second covering his eyes, and the third covering his mouth, they depict the proverb “Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.” The fourth monkey represents “Do no evil.”
“They don’t typically carry rabies, either. There’s never been a recorded case of rabies resulting from a rat bite in the U.S. That’s a myth. Makes us feel better about killing them. Can you imagine how filthy this city would be without rats running around eating our waste? People are the real infestation, if you ask me. People do things like this.”
“I’d kiss you right now if you weren’t such an ugly son of a bitch.”
They wanted to take over the war room, but I put them in the room across the hall instead.” Porter frowned. “The room with the weird smell?” “Yeah. They’re feds. Maybe they can figure out where it’s coming from.”
