Due to its historical multivalence, the archive of associations which it has generated, the hare is rip to be . . . squeezed for maximum, even ultimately uncertain or inchoate significance. Amongst the kinds of things which it has been made or co-opted to signify is, precisely, this poetically open-ended or resonant quality. That said, they tend to cluster around a number of areas more or less troped upon its natural history: sex, death, speed and vitality, super-sensitivity, elusiveness and cunning; untamed or unfathomable "wildness," with only their sinister portentousness bucking the trend.
Image: Catherine Hyde.
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