Original artwork, not a still
The Velveteen Rabbit · 1922
I don’t like dancing, he said. “I’d rather sit still!” But all the while he was longing to dance, for a funny new tickly feeling ran through him, and he felt he would give anything in the world to be able to jump about like these rabbits did.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
He insists he'd rather sit still, but the tickly feeling says otherwise. Secretly he'd give anything to jump about like the rabbits. It's a tender picture of wanting to join in while pretending not to.
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