HAPPY BDAY 2ME / THE TIGER by JOHN VAILLANT

today is my birthday, i wanted, out of john vaillant's THE TIGER, to extract a quote - at random from pages i'd marked, this, tribute to phenomenal, sturdy life...


... All of these men were seasoned animal skinners; nonetheless, as they worked, they commented often on the smell and on how amazingly tough the tiger's hide was. When they opened the chest cavity, the heart was steaming.


don't know about smell but i too have amazingly tough skin, as they's found out when i've had to minorly be stitched up (not with staples made out of tin can as some man in this book, after encounter with TIGER)
tbc