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White:

So, someone asked me the other day why we wore rabbit masks.

Black:

What mask? This is my face.

White:

Yeah, I wonder sometimes...

Black:

I mean I always thought I was a rabbit, or hare, or something like that, but now you come to mention it, I'm not really sure.

White:

I think I'm a hare.

Black:

Americans call hares Jack Rabbits anyway.

White:

So was Br'er Rabbit a hare then?

Black:

Hmmm, difficult to say, he's a pretty slippery, trickster figure anyway. Like Coyote

White:

Well this is all sounding very Joseph Beuys.

Black:

Except his hare was dead.

White:

Maybe we are too.

Black:

Like Frank in Donnie Darko.

White:

Yeah, he had that whole time disjunction going on too.

Black:

That's a Pookah thing.

White:

Yeah? Maybe that's what we are.

Black:

Except his hare was dead.

White:

I think I'm a hare.

Black:

Except his hare was dead.

White:

Well this is all sounding very Paul McCarthy now.

Black:

Yeah, a lot of artists seem to use rabbits.

White:

Go on then, name a single other one!

Black:

Jeff Koons, Reuben Henry, Eduardo Kac, Jo Tremarco, Yoshiko Sato, Nayland Blake, Barry Flanagan...

White:

I think we're getting sidetracked.

Black:

Maybe it's something to do with the myth of the artist being a kind of shamanic figure?

White:

Maybe it's something to do with getting sidetracked.

Black:

Like when you start looking at things and find bizzare connections?

White:

Yeah, like lepufology.

Black:

Huh?

White:

Rabbits ... Po ... Flying Saucers.

Black:

Oh yeah, I see.

White:

You know, rabbit is a word for someone who plays a game badly. If you do something badly, it seems more real, less like a performance.

Black:

I always thought Bugs Bunny was real.

White:

'Bugs' means crazy you know; harebrained.

Black:

They say people that see pookahs are mad too.

White:

Yeah, why did they all act like they couldn't see Harvey in that film?

Black:

Yeah, he was right there...

White:

Well? Shall we go?

Black:

Yes, let's go.









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