Should I be? I don't see why. Dr. Hal, let it be known, is friend to all people on this terraqueous globe. Of course, I remember Orpheus. One doesn't wish to be too well-loved. But, no, I'm not afraid of my fans. I am slightly wary of fans, the kind you hold in your hand. These can be dangerous. In fact, in Japan there is a deadly martial art known as tessenjutsu, based solely on the use of a fan. The poet Edward Gorey knew of the aggressive potential of these seemingly harmless instruments when he wrote:
Said a girl who upon her divan
Was attacked by a virile young man:
"Such excess of passion
Is quite out of fashion,"
And fractured his wrist with her fan.