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23 Feb 2018

The way of the rabbit

Surgery should be performed on rabbits only as a last resort, because rabbits, the vet told me, are less likely than other domesticated animals to survive general anaesthesia. It’s believed this is because rabbits lack the requisite will to live. I was involved with a French lop at the time, big as a small dog […]

15 Jun 2017

Waiting for the train

“I’m just waiting to die,” she says, and not for the first time. “Me, too,” I say, and I tell her about the train station, its tiny platform, windswept, deserted, near the end of a line in rural Japan. Mount Fuji is in the distance, of course, snow-capped and posterized, exactly as Kawase Hasui would have […]