Short-a-Day: Mario Bellatin's "Lessons for a Dead Hare"
Originally published in A Public Space, No. 5, 2008. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 1.[Translated from the Spanish by Daniel Alarcon]Bellatin's story begins with the promise of some twisty, allegorical magic realism, in the style of Borges: "In one of the texts in The Notebook of Things that Are Difficult to Explain, the blind poet speaks of a certain event that took place in an institution known as the Last…