It is interesting that we have people our universe with agents of great good and agents of great harm, and then set about courting the one and resisting the other. From one point of view the Gremlins, kobolds, djinns and devilets are just confused, disoriented, woebegone beings in the universe, just as much as, say, homeless people or Republicans are. In a similar vein they act out their own horrors, hatreds, despairs and angers without much regard for intelligent applicability and context. But they can be forgiven.

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