Bunny tales
Apr 13, 2022
1 minute
If unappealing to artists (who, beginning with Dürer, prefer the hare), the rabbit has been a stalwart of children's stories, from to , and . It's the body. A rabbit is soft, rounded, compact-that button tail-and vulnerable, almost innocent, thus it tugs the same human heart strings as an infant child. Ducks do the same, whereas the long-necked, hissing swan does not. But, being nocturnal and capable of zig-zagging when pursued, the rabbit carries a little mystery and deceit about its being. Fictitious rabbits are rarely entirely insipid. On the contrary, Bugs, Brer Rabbit and Peter are literary hopes that the weak, but ingenious can overcome the powerful, but dim.
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