lionsden - The Monday Morning Memo

#9 The Lion of Daniel

You remember Daniel of ‘Daniel and the Lion’s Den,’ right? He was told to put up or shut up; to renounce what he believed or suffer for it.

He chose the suffering, but it never came to pass.

This bronze Lion of Daniel will peer down from above the door of Wizzo’s new conference room in the chime tower.

That conference room, obviously, will be known as the Lion’s Den.

I’ll see you there when you next come to visit.

Aroo.

Indiana Beagle

PS – The Wind and the Lion is a wonderful 1974 movie with Sean Connery as a desert pirate and Brian Keith as Teddy Roosevelt. Wizzo saw it 14 times in late ’74 and I’m not exaggerating when I say that. I sat in the theater seat beside him every time. The Cougar sat in the parking lot.

“Hirsh was a good friend. I remember one time we robbed this liquor store. And he ran over a dog. He cried for two days over that dog. Anyway, he’ll be missed by so many of us that got left behind. He was a witness to our lives. Not many of those left. So there’s one less person on this earth who knows our name, who remembers our childhood, who shared in each moment as it passed. You know, they say we die twice. Once when the breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name. And then Hirsh’s life will be forgotten like all the other poor fucks that ever had the glory of living. Amen.”

- Valentine, played by Al Pacino, eulogizing his friend, Hirsh, in Stand Up Guys (2012)

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