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favorite books of all time is "Watership Down." In that story,
the main action of the book ends with around 20 pages left.
(It's here that I'll warn you there are spoilers for "Watership
Down" ahead, but the book is almost 40 years old. C'mon.) The
rabbits who have come to Watership Down to make their home have
survived an incursion by the borderline fascist General
Woundwort, and everyone is safe for a little while. It's a
lovely scene, but it's made even more moving by the short
epilogue, set in an undetermined future. The book's hero, leader
Hazel, has grown old and is enjoying one last summer among all
of those for whom he built a world worth living in. Which is
when El-Ahrairah, something like the rabbits' folk hero and/or
god, arrives to take Hazel away to what's after, not a rabbit
Heaven, not exactly, but definitely a place where there will be
less pain and less worry. The final sentences are elliptical,
suggesting more than showing, creat