Of course they do Jean. I totally agree.
But some of the people I have known during my lifetime who had unimpeachable integrity also lacked elegance.
Whereas some of the most elegant people I have known were amongst the most untrustworthy.
In appraising the feeling generated by a keris we call upon the experience we have had in appraising people, so it becomes almost entirely an understanding of the feeling that both the keris & the person generates in us, and this probably comes back to the socio-cultural base that we are working from.
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