Gingerly is the way an explosives expert disarms a bomb. Like porcupines making love,
very alertly, carefully.
Not like incident at VA Hospital almost thirty years ago. A psychologist left his
briefcase outside entrance, while he went in to make a phone call. Someone thought
it might be a bomb, and called hospital police, who took it away, and shot it full of
holes. Inside the briefcase was the only copy of a thesis not yet submitted.