by standing on tiptoe he could get just enough length to catch the rat 's body and drag it toward his cell . `` i do n't give a damn if you prepare your reports standing on your head in a toilet bowl -- as long as they get done . '' it was started in 1927 and took fourteen years to complete . distant thunder warned of the war to the south . call out if you need me . i look up when i hear my name being called . twenty years , and it 's all you . 