Date: 2014-04-29 06:55 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] naomikritzer
Oh, yeah. One of the things I absolutely love about "Watership Down" is that the author is so thoughtful about all the ways in which the fact that the characters are (almost) all rabbits affects who they are. The rabbit mythology is one of those things that will pretty much just stick with you forever, I think; I haven't read it in at least 20 years and yet I remember that El-Ahrairah means "Prince with a Thousand Enemies." There's such a plausible, rabbit's-eye-view of everything from roads to boats to seagulls, KWIM? It's a fantastic example of how perspective and world building can feed on each other, because the setting itself, an English countryside, is thoroughly ordinary, but it's rendered fantastic by the perspective it's seen from.
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