| Abstract: | Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary has the following entry:‘Resident (adj.) Unable to leave’. There are manyexamples in fiction of people who are trapped where they donot want to be. Take the James Bond film (Goldfinger, from memory)in which a number of high-powered villains turn up in a high-techboard room to discuss a dastardly plot to steal the gold inFort Knox. When one of the crooks decides he does not like therisks and heads for the door, he discovers (too late) that thisis the sort |
