TIGERS IN THE DARK
One of our faithful readers and contributors, Thomas Lane Butts, recently sent us a copy of his book Tigers in the Dark, published by Abingdon. In the first chapter, he tells a story from which he gets the title of his book. Several years ago, there was a well-known television circus show that developed a Bengal tiger act. Like the rest of the show, it was done “live” before a large audience. One evening, the tiger trainer went into the cage with several tigers to do a routine performance. The door was locked behind him. The spotlights highlighted the cage, the television cameras moved in close, and the audience watched in suspense as the trainer skillfully put the tigers through their paces. In the middle of the performance, the worst possible fate befell the act: the lights went out! For twenty or thirty long, dark seconds the trainer was locked in with the tigers. In the darkness they could see…
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