‘Gold is shiny. Sharks.’ He pointed at a sculpture of four sharks encircling the planet. ‘I believe in predators,’ he said. ‘Their spirit will enable you to succeed. Over there you’ve got falcons. Alligators. Alligators. More alligators. Tigers.’ ‘It’s as if both Midas and also the Queen of Narnia were here,’ I said, ‘and the Queen of Narnia flew above a particularly fierce zoo and turned everything there to stone and then transported everything here.’
