tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post4926746559711808223..comments2024-03-28T00:17:55.823+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: The Underworld and Fiver - the 'shaman' rabbit in Watership Down (perspectives derived from Rudolf Steiner and Owen Barfield)Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-56107485919938537012019-10-01T04:16:34.638+01:002019-10-01T04:16:34.638+01:00I just read "Watership Down" a few years...I just read "Watership Down" a few years ago on Bruce's recommendation and agree it is a work of genius. I had heard of it before, of course, but had always misunderstood the title, thinking it was syntactically analogous to "Black Hawk Down" and wondering what a sunken "watership" could possibly have to do with rabbits! (British readers, being more familiar with "down" as a place-name component, would presumably be more likely to parse it correctly.) My mental image was of the enormous hull of a sailing ship lying in a grassy meadow, with rabbits hopping around it, and I vaguely imagined that the story was driven by the sudden appearance of the ship and its effect on the rabbits' lives.Wm Jas Tychonievichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07446790072877463982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-69213656859912986712019-09-30T17:52:35.172+01:002019-09-30T17:52:35.172+01:00@SK - I read it in my mid teens and didn't muc...@SK - I read it in my mid teens and didn't much like it - perhaps because I did not like the rabbit religion. I then re-read it on the cusp of becoming a Christian and loved it for the same reason! (Although Adams was not a Christian.) <br /><br />@ap - I think your nomenclature is probably better than the above post - with mortal waking life termed something like the 'Middleworld' - like Middle Earth... although that was meant as middle between Heaven and Hell. (I don't think Hell is really a 'world' since many of its dwellers are probably solitary, self isolated).Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-19157980342146030102019-09-30T16:07:06.066+01:002019-09-30T16:07:06.066+01:00I would like to think of heaven and post-mortal re...I would like to think of heaven and post-mortal resurrected life as an Over World.a_probsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16197411067925016452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-10315203066426934922019-09-30T13:53:39.144+01:002019-09-30T13:53:39.144+01:00Very enjoyable, Bruce. "Watership Down" ...Very enjoyable, Bruce. "Watership Down" is one of the most important books in my life. And it's been interesting through the years when I've asked others if they've ever read it...the most common response is "Watership Down? I thought that was a children's book..."S.K. Orrhttp://www.steepletea.comnoreply@blogger.com