Pennies crash down from the sky

[sovay]

I did not sleep at all last night. This is much less entertaining than it sounds. I am hoping not to repeat the trick tonight.

I know the last time I read Watership Down (1972) was in seventh grade, two years before I started Latin, but I still have no excuse for realizing only this afternoon that it is completely the Aeneid if someone had listened to Kassandra. The book's first epigraph is even some stichomythia from Agamemnon: φόνον δόμοι πνέουσιν αἱματοσταγῆ (line 1309). Hey, Dawn, how're the wife and kids? Marblehead says hello.

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Except without the women. I mean I suppose I can see it as the rape of the Sabines, but if they had all left Troy and had those adventures Hekabe and Andromache would have been there.

[sovay]

I mean I suppose I can see it as the rape of the Sabines,

Of which it certainly has elements. I am still re-reading, but I recall that they initially raid a farm for does; in the case of Efrafa, it just happens to be their luck that Hyzenthlay and others already want to leave.

but if they had all left Troy and had those adventures Hekabe and Andromache would have been there.

Yes. If Kassandra had been listened to; and been her brother.