The Rabbit and Snake Cocktail When the Rabbit meets the Snake, there is true happiness. – Chinese proverb
According to the Chinese zodiac, Rabbit and Snake walk into a bar, and it’s love at first sight, the “Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine” moment. It’s their true happiness falling in love in beautiful places: entering the void in Japanese love hotels, grinding against each other during the last dance at a gay club, exchanging more than words in the backseat of a cab while the driver averts his eyes, reminding himself it’ll be only ten more minutes until they’ve reached their destination. Rabbit wants to take Snake to Prague, where they fall asleep on the other side of the world. It’s as the Surrealists say, “I can only be wild with one person,” until Snake and Rabbit with their fire fight during the movie previews, sitting in sullen silence once the film starts, and she starts sobbing until he puts his hand on her knee, looks at her with the understanding I’m Sorry, until Snake and Rabbit with their fire fight when the waitress at the Sichuan restaurant brings their Kung Pao chicken and spicy scallops, and the waitress apologizes, thinking she caused the fight when in actuality, Snake and Rabbit were fighting over some Russian play about rhinos sitting in a café.
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