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Word: ahrairah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1974-1974
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...mystical profundities, there are references to a death symbol known as the Black Rabbit and stories-within-the-story concerning a rabbit folk hero called El-ahrairah. There is a brief glossary of rabbit terms. The quotations at the head of each chapter derive from Aeschylus, Xenophon, Pilgrim's Progress, Morte d' Arthur. But otherwise Watership Down offers little to build a literary cult upon. On the American-whimsy exchange, one Tolkien hobbit should still be worth a dozen talking rabbits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rabbit Redux | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

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