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...RABBIT IS RICH by John Updike; Knopf; 467pages...
...creature that Dixon calls the rabbuck, for instance. Dixon figures that man, before disappearing, will destroy most of the world's woodlands in his search for fuel and farm land and will drive into extinction the deer and other browsing ungulates that now inhabit forests. But the superprolific rabbit will exploit this newly opened niche by evolving into a deer-size species that combines the lagomorph's gnawing teeth with the long, hoofed legs of the ungulates to form a new genus, Ungulagus. These super-rabbits will not have to worry about the wolves, foxes and feline carnivores...
When Sigmund Freud, his apostles and apostates jumped down the rabbit hole of the unconscious, they found a world that had as much to do with myth, religion and art as it did with science. Psychoanalysis is hardly an objective discipline. Physical scientists must cope with the fact that even inert nature can be altered by the act of observation. The assumption that one active mind can know another is staggering in its implications-like playing three-dimensional chess in a maze of mirrors...
...second mile of the course has historically plagued Crimson harriers, but the results from this year's trip to the Bronx were extremely encouraging. Both Dixon and McNulty ran two minutes faster than they did last year, and the Crimson top three finished strong despite the jack-rabbit pace set by the Lions at the outset...
...that aura of mystery which surrounds her." About the only good thing Cole has to say about the creature is culled from the continental reporter Labouchere, who noted that cats became a gourmet item during the 1870 siege of Paris. Their flavor, he recorded, is "something between a rabbit and a squirrel, with a flavor of its own. It is delicious. Don't drown your kittens. Eat them." Publishing industry sources would not confirm rumors that a book of recipes is being hurried into print...