FROM THE EDITOR
Golden treasures play a leading role in one of my favorite cartoons. Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are traveling underground together to Pismo Beach, but they miss the left turn at Albuquerque and end up in a treasure cave out of One Thousand and One Nights. Bugs is indifferent to the spectacle, but Daffy is immediately obsessed with having it. He forces Bugs into the rabbit hole, shouting, “It’s mine, you understand? Mine! All mine! Get back in there! Down, down, down! Go, go, go! Mine, mine, mine! Mwahahaha!” By cartoon’s end, Daffy has been punished for his greed. (Although he remains unrepentant: “I can’t help it. I’m a greedy slob. It’s my hobby.”) Many fictional characters—from King Midas to Ebenezer Scrooge—are undone by this lust for gold, and history abounds…