Introduction
Resemblances to living or dead persons are not coincidental, which however does not preclude the fact, that one or other of our readers may perhaps mistakenly identify the characters with those not having been intentionally named as such, in which case the resemblance could be regarded as truly coincidental. However, legends, episodes and characteristics attributed to these persons are entirely the creations of the Muses and only in some specific cases, when the human actors themselves, and not the Muses, express their opinions or recount tales about each other, may reflect either grapevine-gossip, truths, half-truths, outright lies or imagined fantasies. Legends and attributes that blissfully live a life of their own, predominantly in the boulevard press, that means in the public domain, which is an open source of unrestricted and seldom censored commodity of public sensations, and whose more established traders and Gurus may occasionally have to bear chastisement or small wounds or in certain rare cases, when sued for defamation, even financial ruin under the hands of certain wizards of the courtrooms. This open source, needless to say is almost always blessed with a boundless fertile imagination, at times so bizarre, especially when it comes to talking about other folks, as to put all the nine Muses to shame! They are occasionally referred to, in order to highlight a certain Socratic Constant, also known as Freudian Projection and which, instead of telling us any sublime truths about the person referred to, usually expose the foible of the narrator, nevertheless an important ingredient of our tales. .