Some years ago, back when Santa Fe had a very good pharmacy called Pharmaca that also sold an assortment of often unusual gift-like goods, I purchased a long dragon. You can't see his length here, but he goes all the way across two solid bookcases. I'm not sure what he is - a scarf? A draft excluder? And yes, of course I bought him vaguely thinking he was in USC colors, but somehow I haven't quite summoned up the - the what? The courage? The craziness? to wear him round my neck to a football game. I may yet ... Of course, the coloring may have something to do with Harry Potter - there's an uneasy overlap between USC and Hogwarts in that respect - but whatever the truth might be, and even if draping him over a bookshelf mightn't be his intended role, I've always been cheered by him, and the institutional flames emanating from his nostrils.
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