The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.
It's the Night of the Living Dead. It's scary out here.
I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.
The sky breaks. It sags and breathes upon my face. in the presence of mine enemies, mine enemies The world is full of enemies. There is no safe place.
It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.
watch out fer these fellers around here. It ain't safe fer a pretty girl. Why, I had one just now tell me I looked like a breath of spring. Well, he didn't use them words, exactly. He said I looked like the end of a hard winter.
I've been in the danger zone
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful.
I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.