They can love, much as we love, but they have no love-poems. No poetry at all. They do not have stories of vengeance, whether laudatory or c...

He walks through town with his dapper hat and his dapper coat. He's got a refined bearing and an easy stride. He is tall - maybe the tal...

Horses will eat baby birds. They're still herbivores - it's an opportunistic thing, an accident really. If you had as long a face as...

Among the three poisonous servants of the sorcerers number these: Take one unwanted by their family, by force or guile or sale, young or old...

When the Great Horde of the Heathens came to golden Kitezh, a third of the city chose to surrender to the Horde, a third of the city chose t...

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Friend of the blog deus ex parabola has written about interesting guys:  https://as-they-must.blogspot.com/2026/05/interesting-guys-theory-o...