Jim's response to "Zoanthropy."

I didn't know what zoanthropy is but according to Webster's, it is a mental disorder in which a person imagines that he or she is a beast.
The main character, Mackenzie Alastair Bonner, describes Bellini's "Saint Francis" in great detail, even speculating about what the animals might be thinking as they watch Saint Francis gazing toward the heavens in rapture d bliss. He seems to use the painting to get his head straight on bad days, "When my corners got too chewed..."
The story jumps between the lion that is on the loose in New York City, and his quirky acquaintance with Butchko "...the Greatest Lover on the East Coast Not counting Florida- they're independent."
David Benioff is masterful with metaphors and imagery. I just never understood what the lion was trying to tell him at the end.