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How did the narrator use rats to help him escape from the pendulum?

(The Pit and the Pendulum)

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The narrator is able to escape death by pendulum, because he enlists the help of the rats that he shares his prison with. ... The rats, smelling food, climb on top of him and gnaw their way through the straps.

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