On 22-Oct-07, at 9:11 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
I remember an essay I read in college...the definition of civilization being that a beautiful woman decked out with jewellery could walk alone at night...and the other definition being, the laying down of any form of weaponry by citizens of the state...
Heh. I remember this used to be in Phantom comics, About a women being fully dressed up with jewellery walking alone at night in the jungle and expecting to be safe, with, in the footprint, the exception of wild animals.
At that age, I couldn't figure for the life of me what threat she could possibly have *apart* from wild animals.
J.
