Gregory Colvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Perhaps Perseus, who slew the Medusa, the snake-haired monster of
> "so frightful an aspect that no living thing could behold her without
> being turned into stone."
> 
> Perseus avoid being turned to stone by clever use of indirection --
> he avoided looking directly at Medusa, instead looking only at her
> reflection in the mirror of his polished shield.
> 
> http://www.online-mythology.com/perseus_medusa/

Man! You Da Man! :-)

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