7. The Show Goes On

"This is our main performance hall, my dear. You'll see that the seats are very comfortable, and some of them, like this one that we are about to occupy, are double the width, so that a customer and his or her date can sit cozily side by side. The narrow seats give ‘cheek to cheek' a new meaning, if you'll pardon the pun. I know that you'll pardon the intimacy; after all, that's what life here is all about.

"We adopted a lot of our games from the ancient Greek and Romans, especially the Romans, whose ‘circuses' often meant kill or be killed. Or sometimes even kill AND be killed, as the prize to the winning gladiator was the opportunity to fight another contestant, and so on until only one was left. The ultimate winner's fate was decided by the caprice of the Emperor - whether he would be feted as a hero, or fed to the animals, or perhaps tortured to death for the amusement of the crowd.

"You notice that the stage actually is a ring, with...

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