Rehabilitating the Tirapheg

Or maybe for more inscrutable reasons.

Its a nice idea! I like the idea of these things wondering about, doing something. They certainly look like they are acting with purpose;- so much raw, exquisite, yet inexpliccable emotion wrought into the alien musculature of their faces, every movement made with awkward jerky precision and deliberation. Simple folk would maintain that something so bizzare and alien should not be suffered to live, and torch-and-fork mobs would hunt them out and destroy them when they find them; which is rare because an encounter is often remembered entirely differently, as if the rational mind would seek solace in self deception. Scholars study them for long years and still come to nothing. Pattern recognisable to human understanding is entirely unestablishable. Gestalt analysis fails completely; perhaps the only constant.
 

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