It’s Young’s desire to share that image without imposing on that man’s irreducible humanity, to let language steer the story, that shows him belonging to a pretty traditional lineage of storytellers: the one who hears “man” in “toucan.” These stories know that their job is to permute our circumstances and our language until they’ve uncovered new ways to make our world mysterious again. What Easter Rabbit knows is that the secret’s blown when you turn the lights on: the real secret is how the light spreads.
Easter Rabbit reviewed at Noö Journal
Over at Noö Journal, Mike Young put together a readable theory-approach to Easter Rabbit. Using the stories in ER, he outlines an apology for esoteric literature.
