> suggest the erotically-charged "dangerous woman" of yore, a classic,
> media-fueled cliche to be sure - the wayward, much-romanticized subject
> of innumerable dime paperback covers - versus the more real, and more
> immediately threatening/harmful, type of person
It's not like falling for someone who's waving a knife in your face. It's like juggling with porcupines -- warm fuzzy mammals one minute, howling beasts tearing at your aorta the next.
It's probably just that I'm not indigenous to this planet.
-- Dennis