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rmc28The holes certainly were rough - 'Just right for a bunch of vagabonds like us' said Bigwig - but the exhausted and those who wander in strange country are not particular about their quarters.
[This post is part of my Watership Down read through. You are welcome to join in at any time; please read my introduction post first.]
[This post is part of my Watership Down read through. You are welcome to join in at any time; please read my introduction post first.]
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Date: 2016-01-03 15:50 (UTC)I like that Blackberry's inventiveness operates in a 'management' direction as well as a technological one – he's as comfortable with suggesting an innovation in the social order (bucks digging holes) as he is with the more quintessential kind of invention such as the raft back in chapter 8.
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Date: 2016-01-03 16:26 (UTC)Lacking your maths education, I didn't quite have the suspense of the scene in the dark shattered in the same way :-) I think it draws out three things: Bigwig's more superstitious side, and also his courage in attempting to go anyway; Hazel's protectiveness in response to Bigwig's helplessness overriding his fear; Dandelion following Hazel on something of the same impulse, but also reminiscent of Dandelion and Hazel scouting out the wood, way back in the beginning of the journey.
And then there is the dramatic reveal of the last line.
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Date: 2016-01-03 20:04 (UTC)This chapter is genuinely scary to me. It's partly the way no one has any idea what's going on, and partly that Bigwig is freaking out, when he's normally afraid of nothing. Though it does feel very psychologically real that someone who can defeat any material danger fears the immaterial.