These People Bought a Tiger!
a note from the wizard
Rick Copper noticed that I often write about tigers.
Tigers, for me, are a metaphor. An important one.
Lions are powers outside you.
They can be for you or against you
and there are many of them. Just ask Daniel.
But the Tiger is the power within you.
The tiger abides alone.
In other words, it really is up to you.
How healthy is your tiger?
When Rick told me about a life-sized bronze tiger,
a copy of the sculpture done by Antoine Barye of France in 1833,
I said, “Damn! Just when the Academy has no money.”
But this most gorgeous tiger could be bought for just $2,000,
a miraculous price, and I knew exactly where a tiger
could happily prowl the campus…