Word: rabbiters
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...Winds of War, Wouk (I last week) 2--Wheels, Hailey (2) 3-The Assassins/ Kazan (4) 4-The Exorcist, Blatty (5) 5-The Day of the Jackal, Forsyth (3) 6-The Blue Knight, Wambaugh (8) 7-The Betsy, Robbins (6) 8-Rabbit Redux, Updike (7) 9-The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Higgins 10-The Word, Wallace
FICTION 1 -The Winds of War, Wouk (1 last week) 2-Wheels, Hailey (2) 3-The Day of the Jackal, Forsyth (3) 4-The Assassins, Kazan (5) 5-The Exorcist, Blatty (4) 6-The Betsy, Robbins (6) 7-Rabbit Redux, Updike (7) 8-The Blue Knight, Wambaugh (9) 9-Our Gang, Roth (8) 10-The Peaceable Kingdom, de Hartog
...connected with the game seems to realize that all that violence is sickening, least of all Duke. And the longer you stay with hockey, the more callous, more insensitive it makes you. One afternoon, while Billy and Sherri are frolicking in the woods, he sends his dog after a rabbit, and expresses no remorse when the smaller animal is killed. Things get rocky from that point on, and when the Maple Leafs' general manager tells Sherri that in hockey, "everything has to be put in its proper place, even a wife," the damage to the relationship is irreparable...
...think for Rabbit it is--remember, he is an animal...in the first book he was happy brainlessly working in Mrs. Smith's garden. Yes, he does pine after an animal existence...
...kind of left the book open, I even mounted a few threads that could be picked up. Janice talks about how he never should have had that awful indoor job. I even had a title about Rural Rabbit--that's going to be their next stage. I couldn't write that book now. Maybe in 1979 enough will have happened to both him and me that I can, but if it doesn't that's all right. Maybe I should stop while I'm-ahead-at least as far as the New York Times goes...