Word: phenomemon
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Dates: during 1975-1975
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Paced by freshman phenomemon Peter Fitzsimmons, Harvard runners dominated the five-mile race, taking seven of the first nine places...
...which the rabbits talk to each other, and otherwise behave inteligently in their own rabbit-like ways. One of them, Cassandra-like, prophesies the future and sets them off on their adventure. Adams has that streak of Pessimism too, he's just more cautious. Even after the "most extraordinary phenomemon" of Watership's success. Adams didn't quit his Civil Service job. He waited until the publishers accepted his second novel. Shardik, and told him that it was "great, that they'd start with 100,000 copies, and all that sort of thing." Adams says, "I thought, well here...
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