Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. There were two huge tanks, and when we got closer we saw that water was flowing from one of them. I pushed it with my hand. Someone – and I’m going to find out who – took advantage of my terrible drunkenness last night, gave me a sleeping pill or a drug, and put me in here among these beasts.” I was just thinking that in no zoo in the world are lions and crocodiles put in the same place, when I got another kick in the ribs:
“Are you ever going to wake up?”
I looked toward the possessor of the voice. Sort of a modern day Adam and Eve, assuming we’re allowed to remake the myth… Good enough for a dog – but not for a lion or the Siberian tiger that was already sniffing along the lakeshore, snorting in displeasure. I tried to dig at its base, but encountered the same hard material everywhere. I stretched and wanted to turn my back: maybe if I pretended to sleep on, she would have the
