Talk:Of Rats and Men/@comment-22522319-20140923040549

Could this also be a reference to Edgar Allen Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum"? In the story, the narrator was bound up with rats coming out of the pit. As the pendulum was descending down upon him, he used the meat to get the rats to chew off the bandages. He also ate the meat thus making the rats snack on his lips and left hand as well.