Art Garfunkel’s song Bright Eyes, from the 1979 film adaptation of Watership Down.
Author Richard Adams, who wrote the original novel, developed a fascinating matrix of “Lapine” language and a rich mythology, including tales of the Black Rabbit of Inlé. The Black Rabbit serves Lord Frith – essentially a deification of the sun – by claiming lives when their times have come. It is a figure of fear in the fraught day-to-day lives of rabbits – who struggle to comprehend abstract concepts – but also serves as a psychopomp and a restorer of balance to their world.
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