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44: Chapter 42. News at Sunset
Scripted by John Ruths and Newell Fisher
The pre-chapter quote is from Plato, referring to Socrates, in 'Euthyphro'.
Plato's statement that "the act is unjust and hateful to the gods" would seem to refer to how things develop in this chapter. So, like some other pre-chapter quotes, this one is definitely foreshadowing. But it also refers to how things turn out with the Efrafans finding the warren. Their discovery of WD is also 'unjust and hateful.' But also 'to the gods?', given an upcoming remark about Frith by Hazel?
Having just told the story about El-ahrairah besting Rowsby Woof, awesome storyteller and fastest rabbit Dandelion remembers that he's got sentry duty. Hazel soon sees the same mouse that he saved many chapters ago. It's not the same mouse by random accident. This is a reminder from Adams ...
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