Conversation of the Week: Here There Be Tygers

“Look! There’s a tiger on TV.”

It’s footage of Siegfried and Roy.

“I can’t believe that happened.”

“Yeah, well, if you play with tigers every night for twenty years, sooner or later odds are that one of them will take a bite out of you.”

“But I always thought that their animals loved them. I thought they were friends.”

“It’s not a friend. It’s a wild fucking animal. It doesn’t love them.”

“How do you know it doesn’t love them?”

“If it loved them, they wouldn’t have to keep it in a cage.”