A big bunny and small happiness

意大利北部Piedmont山上住了一只兔，粉紅色的身軀大又長，懶洋洋地躺於草原上。以往人待兔，現在兔待人。遊人眼前的，是兔子? 還是玩偶?

累了坐在兔子的肚皮上，天空海闊人渺小。紅粉大兔的存在，叫凡人稍停一會去留心身旁一切，領略渺小而簡單的快樂。

巨兔Hase將會待於山中十八載，看透人間世情。與渺小的人類相比，誰較誰快樂?

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Rabbit

The things one finds wandering in a landscape: familiar things and utterly unknown, like a flower one has never seen before, or, as Columbus discovered, an inexplicable continent; and then, behind a hill, as if knitted by giant grandmothers, lies this vast rabbit, to make you feel as small as a daisy.

The toilet-paper-pink creature lies on its back: a rabbit-mountain like Gulliver in Lilliput. Happy you feel as you climb up along its ears, almost falling into its cavernous mouth, to the belly-summit and look out over the pink woolen landscape of the rabbitís body, a country dropped from the sky; ears and limbs sneaking into the distance; from its side flowing heart, liver and intestines.

Happily in love you step down the decaying corpse, through the wound, now small like a maggot, over woolen kidney and bowel. Happy you leave like the larva that gets its wings from an innocent carcass at the roadside.

Such is the happiness which made this rabbit.

I love the rabbit the rabbit loves me.



(photo and English text from gelitin)