“Our room…was called the Rat Hole….once, when the
drain
clogged, a dead rat was found to be the impediment. Next
door was The Swamp, an abode notorious for its
problems
with percolation.
There was one morning…when I failed to
test the substrate before setting foot to floor and found
that
during the night the tide has risen.”
WHICH AUTHOR? WHICH
BOOK?