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Zorn, in rabbit language, "denotes a catastrophe." Frith is the sun "personified as a god." Hlessil means migrant rabbits. And obviously Watership Down-the name of the upland where these hlessil finally make their new home-is also the code word for that territory known to Oxford dons and nannies: English-whimsy country...
...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...
...greatest profits are expected from passenger transport over the tedious distances between U. S. and South American business centres. It still takes weeks to travel between the two continents by watership. Buenos Aires is 18 days from New York, Valparaiso 21 days. Distance has retarded U. S. exploitation and participation in Latin-American enterprises more than have differences in culture and language. National City and Chase National banks of Manhattan have already ventured into South America extensively. Officials of such banks and of industries with similar foreign enterprise will, the aviation companies confidently expect, travel often to South America...