The photo below left appeared in yesterday’s post.
An astute observer, the author, Steve Stoliar, emailed me about the ceramic thingy (I’m not exactly sure what it was used for…a planter maybe?). It reminded him of the rabbit backing up from Thurber’s “Our Pet Department” (found in a number of places. The Thurber Carnival is where I first saw it).
It originally appeared in The New Yorker March 1, 1930:
I responded to the Spill visitor by saying that I keep the ceramic bird/rabbit close by my desk. When my gaze drifts over in its direction, it never ever fails to amuse.