Sensory and Sensual

Aura's a really good read, phenomenal, and unlike any other text I've read before. Its engrossing and unique  because outside of work arrangements between Fillipe's and Consuela, there's hardly any dialogue, most of the text is just imagery and sensory text reflecting on Fillipe's surroundings. Filipe hardly even matters himself because the text directly addresses 'you' with great displays of imagery and sensory text that unlike supertoad aren't impossibly foreign.
The book is like a drug induced haze or a dream, quick and sensational. The pages were turning so fast that I don't think I was absorbing anything below the surface. I'd like to reread the story and I probably will, sooner than later. One thing that did strike me though was the rats. The rats haunt the artifacts of Consuela and the General's past lives and the idea of their youth. The rats have proliferated because the cats have disappeared from the house. Consuela hasn't had use for cats in years. I was reading into the rats as a symbol of plague on the youth but if the sexually devious Consuela was murdering the cats when she was younger maybe they wouldn't have been around to control the rats anyways. I'm not quite sure what their significance is. Since the rats and the cats seem to be visible only to some I imagine they have a deeper meaning that I'll discover after another (few?) readings.