It's okay, X. Sensible people appreciate highwires and lion-patting!

These sensible people, however, have just completed the showy finale of their act, and are working their way offstage. In their place come two clowns on a much lower wire, with broad pantomime instead of acrobatics. Down below, three jugglers are halfway through their act.

X will be glad to learn that the lions come after the jugglers, though.