When I went out today to experience nature, heat, and humidity, I saw quite a large number of rabbits. Like ten rabbits.
That's a lot of rabbits.
And they aren't smart at all. They sit really still pretending that they're invisible. Then, just about at the point where I could reach in and grab its hair (hare, ha!), they stick out their tail and run away. If Sprocket were a little more stealthy, the might catch a few more rabbits.
Harvey, however, the rabbit who's about 6' 3.5", he's not dumb. He's a pooka. I do love that movie. Jimmy Stewart plays Elwood and Josephine Hull is his sister. Her name doesn't conjure up any images, but I know her when I see her.
Harvey, being a smart rabbit, must have sucked up other people's smartness. That's why there are quotes like these:
Elwood's sister, Veta Louise, says:
As I was going down to the taxi cab to get Elwood's things, this awful man stepped out. He was a white slaver, I know he was. He was wearing one of those white suits, that's how they advertise.
Elwood's aunt says,
Is, is that Mrs. Frank Cummings? Doesn't she look ghastly, I thought she was dead. I must get a closer look.
Elwood's niece says,
Oh, mother, people get run over by trucks every day. Why can't something like that happen to Uncle Elwood?
Elwood himself, who has a bit of the idiot savant about him, has a few things to say as well.
I seem to have misplaced my buttonhole.
I'd just helped Ed Hickey into a taxi. Ed had been mixing his drinks, and I felt he needed conveying. I started to walk down the street when I heard a voice saying: 'Good evening, Mr. Dowd'. I turned, and there was this big white rabbit leaning against a lamppost. Well, I thought nothing of that! Because when you've lived in a town as long as I've lived in this one, you get used to the fact that everybody knows your name.
Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. And you may quote me.
Harvey doesn't say a word. Another indication of his cleverness.
Posted by dotty at July 11, 2005 10:11 PM