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Jul. 4th, 2005 09:32 am...so, by now everyone knows I'm a dork, right?
Just checking! ;p
( Watership Down! )
It occurs to me, besides all of this, that there's a very general reason that I love this story. It's the way Adams conveys sense-of-time. That is... take Good Omens. The bits with the Them, where they're trying to convey this childlike sense of time, where a day is forever and a year is eternity. I don't think it quite comes off, though. It's there and you can see it? But you can't feel it.
Watership Down immerses you in it. I honestly lost track of how long the rabbits had been in any one place in the story, and kept getting jarred when it mentioned one or two days having passed. It never feels like one or two days. It feels like years, like we've been with Hazel and the others for all their lives or nearly that - but the whole story takes place over maybe two months. It's beautiful.
Just checking! ;p
( Watership Down! )
It occurs to me, besides all of this, that there's a very general reason that I love this story. It's the way Adams conveys sense-of-time. That is... take Good Omens. The bits with the Them, where they're trying to convey this childlike sense of time, where a day is forever and a year is eternity. I don't think it quite comes off, though. It's there and you can see it? But you can't feel it.
Watership Down immerses you in it. I honestly lost track of how long the rabbits had been in any one place in the story, and kept getting jarred when it mentioned one or two days having passed. It never feels like one or two days. It feels like years, like we've been with Hazel and the others for all their lives or nearly that - but the whole story takes place over maybe two months. It's beautiful.