[like most of his realizations, this one comes in a flash with a mental picture clear as day: his first group of lab rats at Colombia after a day of hard cognitive testing, curled up in the corner of the cage. they'd been given their reward, and a couple of them, once they'd finished eating, had begun to grind their teeth.]
Oh my God.
[his eyes light up, and he snaps his fingers repeatedly, trying to remember the proper term]
It's because you're a rat, Peter, you're - you're - oh, the hell is the word. Otto! Cognitive Research 207, with Richards, did you ever take that? He called it something specific, some funny-sounding thing ...
cw: animal experimentation mention in emotes
[like most of his realizations, this one comes in a flash with a mental picture clear as day: his first group of lab rats at Colombia after a day of hard cognitive testing, curled up in the corner of the cage. they'd been given their reward, and a couple of them, once they'd finished eating, had begun to grind their teeth.]
Oh my God.
[his eyes light up, and he snaps his fingers repeatedly, trying to remember the proper term]
It's because you're a rat, Peter, you're - you're - oh, the hell is the word. Otto! Cognitive Research 207, with Richards, did you ever take that? He called it something specific, some funny-sounding thing ...