Inscrutable
From the Robert E. Howard Lexicon
© 2016 James LaFond
DEC/4/16
“His scarred face was inscrutable but she caught the new glint in his volcanic eyes.”
The Slave Princess
Howard was a dealer in enigmatic characters, usually of the alienated or outcast sort, hence his use of inscrutable immediately brings to mind incongruous or incongruent. His heroes were, in some way, always out of place. Their manliness included making their own faces unreadable to others as was necessary for them to prevail.
in·scru·ta·ble
(ĭn-skro͞o′tə-bəl)
adj.
Difficult to understand or interpret; impenetrable
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[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin īnscrūtābilis : in-, not; see in-1 + scrūtārī, to scrutinize; see scrutiny.]
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in·scru′ta·bil′i·ty n.
in·scru′ta·bly adv.
let the world fend for itself
the fighting edge
sorcerer!
broken dance
your trojan whorse
hate
all-power-fighting
time & cosmos
winter of a fighting life
cracker-boy
by the wine dark sea
on combat
solo boxing
beasts of aryas
the greatest lie ever sold
wife—
sons of aryas
uncle satan
book of nightmares
america the brutal
dark, distant futures
when you're food
menthol rampage
z-pill forever
ranger?
song of the secret gardener
thriving in bad places
fiction anthology one
logic of steel
orphan nation
predation
the sunset saga complete
the greatest boxer
the lesser angels of our nature
logic of force
fate
the gods of boxing
fanatic
into leviathan’s maw
the combat space
triumph
taboo you
the first boxers
honor among men
blue eyed daughter of zeus
the year the world took the z-pill
night city
masculine axis
barbarism versus civilization
under the god of things
on the overton railroad
son of a lesser god
songs of aryas
advent america
within leviathan’s craw