"All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you - digger, listener, runner.... Be full of tricks, and your people shall never be destroyed."
- Richard Adams, "Watership Down"

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Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/24/moonlight/

Looks like reality is catching up with fiction.

The map shows an overlay of new development in Newtown, UK. It sounds like development has already started in the red area, and will expand to the black area.

The marker for “Sandleford Park” is a possible location of Sandleford Warren featured at the beginning of Richard Adams’ book, Watership Down.

In the book and movie, Sandleford Warren is destroyed, killing most of its rabbits, to make way for a six-acre housing development. A real-life local effort opposed this development, but they announced last year they had failed.

The jagged border at the bottom shows the River Enborne that Hazel and his group crossed early in the story.

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"All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you - digger, listener, runner.... Be full of tricks, and your people shall never be destroyed."
- Richard Adams, "Watership Down"

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A quotation from Richard Adams

Richard Adams (1920-2016) English novelist
Watership Down, ch. 5 “In the Woods” (1972)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-richard/77763/

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"Frith [the sun] made all the animals and birds, but when he first made them, they were all the same. The sparrow and the kestrel were friends, and they both ate seeds and flies. And the fox and the rabbit were friends, and they both ate grass. And there was plenty of grass and plenty of flies, because the world was new, and Frith shone down bright and warm all day."
- Richard Adams, "Watership Down"

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"Uncle Remus might well have heard of him, for some of El-Ahrairah’s adventures are those of Brer Rabbit. For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies."
― Richard Adams, "Watership Down"

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"El-ahrairah, your people cannot rule the world, for I will not have it so. All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you - digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks, and your people shall never be destroyed."
- Richard Adams, "Watership Down"

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