![]() General Woundwort attacks a dog, something no rabbit would do, but this makes sense given his characterization as a fascist madman and the fact the other rabbits flee from that same dog. ![]() However, Adams made sure that this was motivated by character and that it was acknowledged that rabbits generally would not behave this way. These necessitated the rabbits to behave in an unusual way for their species. In Watership Down, Richard Adams wrote rabbits with human concerns like politics and religion. But unless we're at Bugs Bunny levels of anthropomorphism, it should be clearer when the characters are behaving in a blatantly abnormal way for their species. I am happy to allow for a some anthropomorphism or inaccuracy in a book featuring talking animals, even if they don't do anything physically impossible for the species. So little attention is paid to biological accuracy that they could easily be replaced with humans. Think The Last Unicorn or The Hobbit, both of which I enjoy, but which are unsatisfying when I want an animal story. The cover blurb for this book promises a tale in the tradition of Watership Down or The Incredible Journey yet I found it to read more like a conventional magical quest story. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Ottoman reformers hoped an identity grounded in civic loyalty to the dynasty (Ottomanism) would subsume rather than eradicate preexisting religious identities and lead to greater harmony in the empire’s body politic, as well as to secure the continued diplomatic support of the United Kingdom. This volume, which starts chronologically where the earlier work ended, discusses the reforms by which the Ottoman state attempted to instill in its subjects an ideal of secular nationalism following the sectarian disruptions of the middle of the 19th century. ![]() ![]() Ussama Makdisi’s The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Lebanon (University of California Press, 2001) has provided the theoretical foundation for most scholarly research on inter communal relations in the Ottoman Empire since its publication. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Sweetest Oblivion was the most wonderful surprise ever! 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Of the nine years since Tolkien and Edith had met as fellow lodgers (and orphans), three had been spent under a communication ban imposed by his guardian. To call it a difficult birth would be the understatement of a century: it has taken 100 years for the story of Beren and Lúthien to become a book in its own right. For Second Lieutenant J R R Tolkien the dance in the glade inspired a fairy tale, written that same summer in hospital, after a relapse of Somme trench fever. It seems a vision from a lost world, and for that Somme veteran in 1917 it was: a glimpse of joy as if sorrow, sickness and horror had never been. ![]() In a woodland glade white with flowers, a young woman danced for her soldier husband. ![]() ![]() ![]() What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India. He begins his discussion of caste by canvassing other representative views of caste and by identifying what they regarded as peculiarities of Caste (CI, 7). 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