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“What does that mean?”
“Nothing. Well, the logic is that when forced into an aversive situation (such as being dumped into a pool) the rat will oscillate between attempts to escape and resigning to its fate”
“And this guy gave up?”
“Today he did.”
“Does he usually?”
“Yeah. See.. I’m trying to quantify how helpless this rat feels and why more today than yesterday. “
(From the opening scene of Gigantic with zooey deschanel; even rats succumb to russian fatalism)
