This link randomly turned up on my reading list today: http://thecore.uchicago.edu/Winter2011/editors-note.shtml :
Sometime in the early 1970s or shortly before - around the time John Marcone was born - an intricate, astonishingly realistic tiger was drawn in chalk on a blackboard in a laboratory at the University of Chicago, as if it was stalking out of the darkness. The only clue as to the drawing's origin or meaning is a Chinese character for "King" worked in to the linework of the fur on the tiger's forehead, but for nearly forty years, the simple chalk drawing was left magically untouched by generations of students and teachers.
In 2007 - around the time Marcone became Chicago's freeholding Lord - an attempt was made to damage the drawing, and as a result, it was restored and protected by fixative and plexiglass.
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Tigers
Date: 2011-03-07 05:28 pm (UTC)Sometime in the early 1970s or shortly before - around the time John Marcone was born - an intricate, astonishingly realistic tiger was drawn in chalk on a blackboard in a laboratory at the University of Chicago, as if it was stalking out of the darkness. The only clue as to the drawing's origin or meaning is a Chinese character for "King" worked in to the linework of the fur on the tiger's forehead, but for nearly forty years, the simple chalk drawing was left magically untouched by generations of students and teachers.
In 2007 - around the time Marcone became Chicago's freeholding Lord - an attempt was made to damage the drawing, and as a result, it was restored and protected by fixative and plexiglass.
...surely this is not all simple coincidence?