Life & Wisdom Quote by Kit Williams

A rabbit on the prow of a South Pointing Chariot is a deliciously simple image with a sly lesson inside it: symbols don’t just decorate our machines, they steer them. Kit Williams, best known for turning whimsy into obsession (Masquerade and its real-world treasure hunt), understands how a small, charming detail can become a governing principle. Make the handle a rabbit, extend it out front, and you’ve built a literal version of how narratives work: once you pick a mascot, a myth, a “lead,” everything else starts organizing itself behind it.

The specific intent here feels twofold. On the surface, it’s an anecdote about an ingenious device and its ornamentation. Underneath, it’s a parable about pursuit. The rabbit is bait, and the chariot is the infrastructure of chasing - elegant, complicated, and ultimately subordinate to whatever it’s been told to follow. That’s Williams’ recurring move: taking the childlike (a rabbit!) and revealing how easily it recruits adult behavior (devotion, fixation, sunk-cost momentum).

Subtextually, the line pricks at the idea of agency. The chariot “had to follow” not because the rabbit is powerful, but because the system was designed around it. That’s a neat metaphor for culture: the front-facing emblem - trend, brand, ideology, hero - can end up pulling entire institutions along, even when the emblem started as mere carving. In Williams’ world, whimsy isn’t harmless; it’s a lever.