Smart Bunny

 I found a website that has all the Kilgore Trout story synopsises from various Kurt Vonnegut novels. For those readers who are not familiar with the works of Kurt Vonnegut, Kilgore Trout is a recurring character. Trout is a science fiction writer and many of his short stories, which are largely unread works published in pornographic magazines, are described in Vonnegut’s novels.

For some reason, The Smart Bunny story has crawled its way into my memory and stayed with me more than many of the others. I guess I has always had a strong sense of association between rabbits and depressing truths about life since watching the animated Watership Down movie as a child. The brief description of the smart bunny is for me as poignant description of the futility of isolated and disregarded intellect as George Elliot’s Mill on the Floss and Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure.