mightymur | July 10, 2009
They’d altered what rabbits do naturally because they thought they could do better. ~ Richard Adams, Watership Down As weeks passed, It amused me that while the “no last name” rule was followed hard and fast, people still speculated, and even pried. There was a small clique of senators’ daughters who looked down on those [...]
mightymur | June 30, 2009
What’s happening back home, I wonder? Think, when we lived in our own burrows? Dry, soft, warm bodies… Look, we can’t go on like this. It keeps getting worse and worse wherever we go. Where ARE we going? ~Pipkin, Dandelion, and Silver, Watership Down You’re only brave if you’re scared first. If you don’t actually [...]
mightymur | June 23, 2009
Now, among the animals was El-Ahrairah, the Prince of Rabbits. He had many friends and they all ate grass together. But after a time, the rabbits wandered everywhere, multiplying and eating as they went. Then Frith said to El-Ahrairah, “Prince Rabbit, if you cannot control your people, I shall find ways to control them.” ~Narrator, [...]
mightymur | June 16, 2009
Where are you going? Away, to the hills. By yourself, alone? You’ll die! You’re closer to death than I am. ~Hazel and Fiver, Watership Down As I stood outside tall iron gate of The Hutchins School for Exceptional Teens, the iron curlicues winked dully at me. They didn’t have a comforting edge; these were dull [...]
mightymur | June 9, 2009
Hazel, look… the field… it’s covered with blood! ~Fiver, Watership Down I didn’t know what the big deal was, but Senator Daddy said he’d had enough. Yeah, that’s what I call him. He hates it. He says he’s Senator Jeffrey Donald Atkins III on Capitol Hill, but at home I should call him just Daddy. [...]
