“In my experience, grief is a drug that induces visions,” the author André Alexis says, in a conversation about his short story “Houyhnhnm.” “It distorts or heightens the world around you.”
,” first a father and then his son develop a relationship with a horse they believe can speak English and discuss philosophical matters. How did this idea first come to you?
The narrator’s mother thinks that Xan, the horse, doesn’t actually speak, and that father and son have a shared delusion . You leave open the possibility that she’s right. Could Xan be a normal horse onto which the narrator simply projects his grief and mourning? Paul suspects that Xan is named after Xanthus, an immortal horse in Greek mythology who was able to speak and prophesy—and actually prophesied the death of his owner, Achilles. Is this an early hint to the reader?
Paul’s father told extremely bad jokes, which are central to Xan’s attempts to understand human nature. How did you choose the jokes to use in the story?
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