Weapon of choice, we are predisposed toward blades, balance, beauty, spare-ness: rapier, stiletto
and their role in the dance, Maya Deren's elemental steps, to walk the pattern in amber, k.g.'s bathroom floor tiles, the chess board: moves, checks and slays, Angel of Death.
Touch of evil: Orson's hymn to the true monsters and angels.
baby pru et ami; zebra
and assault on precinct unca nemo
'Choice of Weapons' is the title of a true hallucinatory tale by Robert Aickman