Op-Ed: Celebrity is far too shallow a gloss on P-22. What made this mountain lion essential was not that he was famous, but that he persevered. (via latimesopinion)
Like a lot of Angelenos, I found myself consumed last week by the fate of P-22, the mountain lion that, a decade ago, was discovered to have taken up residence in Griffith Park. On Monday, the big cat was sedated and captured in a Los Feliz backyard, after apparently having been hit by a car the night before. Aging and in failing health, he suffered a fractured skull, among other injuries.
On the one hand, there’s the matter of celebrity. Certainly, the 12-year-old cat fit the criteria — sought out by residents eager for a sighting, written up in publications including National Geographic. Just think of the iconic photos: P-22 passing below the Hollywood sign or standing on a crest overlooking the basin, with its sprawling nighttime lights.And yet, celebrity is fickle and it is fleeting. It’s far too shallow a gloss on P-22.
Instead of Huxley’s witless joy, let’s substitute wildness: a city in which nature vividly asserts itself. This begins with the instability of the landscape — the fires, floods, earthquakes and droughts. Among my favorite civic symbols are the La Brea Tar Pits, which sit in the midst of the metropolis like a harbinger of past and future, reminding us of where the city came from, what it will revert to.
The same might be said of P-22, who in coming to Griffith Park, enacted another never-ending Los Angeles story: leaving home, with all its limitations , lighting out for new territory.
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