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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[sovay]

That is lovely....and of course Fiver is Kassandra, so Hazel is Aeneas? Hee.

Your icon is best.

I also love the way the book is used in 'The Stand,' too.

I have not read The Stand. How does the epic get handed on?

[sovay]

(actual line in the show: the character shown goes, "This is a great book! It's about BUNNIES"!).

Hee!

I liked it b/c Stu thinks (being a rural Texan) rabbits are pretty stupid, and he thinks the idea of the book is dumb, but then he starts reading it and is blown away and actually talks about it to people! (he's v closed-mouthed) It's v well-done.

That's awesome.

[sovay]

The thing turned out to be about rabbits, for Christ's sake. The stupidest, most cowardly animals of God's earth....except the guy who wrote that book made them seem different. You really cared about them. It was a pretty damn good story, and Stu, who read at a snail's pace, finished it two days later. ....Tharn. It was a good word for a bad state of mind.

Yay.