I should be responsible and do more cleaning, but fuck it. I'm going to have dinner and then start livetweeting Watership Down as I read it for the first time.

Okay, I've eaten, I have a drink, it's only 79 degrees in here, let's do this.

Did people actually think this was a kid's book? Or was it just the movie? Because it starts with a quote from Agamemnon about bloody altars. #SilverWatershipDown

It seems I'd likely appreciate the scene setting more if I knew wild flowers #SilverWatershipDown

We've now met our likely protagonist, Fiver - because he was the last of his litter and the runt. In Rabbit he's actually Little Thousand because rabbits can only count up to four, so anything higher is a lot/a thousand.

We've also met Fiver's friend, Hazel, who is much less timid.

#SilverWatershipDown Fiver finds them a bit of cowslip, but they only get a bit before they're run off by two larger rabbits, part of the Owlsa, or authority.

#SilverWatershipDown Hazel complains about it and says when he's Owlsa he'll be nicer. Fiver says that at least he will be. Hazel says he'd look after Fiver. Hazel seems like a good friend.

#SilverWatershipDown And we're only a few pages in and there's already good worldbuilding. I suppose footnotes are a bit of a cheat, but I don't mind.

#SilverWatershipDown Fiver and Hazel go across the brook to eat and discover something that terrifies Fiver even though he says it's not danger. Yet.

There's a new sign up, which of course they can't read. Fiver insists the field is full of blood, which Hazel doesn't see. Hazel manages to get Fiver home. The sign is that there is going to be a real estate development here. #SilverWatershipDown

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#SilverWatershipDown Chapter two. Hazel wakes up thinking he's being attacked, but it's Fiver having a nightmare about the warren on a board in a stream, but the board is made of bones and wire.

#SilverWatershipDown It's actually a well described dream, where things will suddenly change and there are scene changes, and very loose logic. We don't see that enough.

Fiver wants to run and wants the whole warren to run. Hazel concedes that they should go talk to the chief rabbit. #SilverWatershipDown