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Post by bobbyderie on May 10, 2016 14:14:24 GMT -5
I gave you my (slightly confused) response on Facebook, but it's important to remember that Price's book was based more on her journals from the period and her feelings at the time, which is why it can come across as somewhat self-centered and un-empathetic. In later life I think she was much more sympathetic towards the Howards, even if she never quite understood REH.
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Post by deuce on Feb 20, 2018 14:42:20 GMT -5
"Do you try to write like the guys who write for the magazines you write for?" Clyde asked.
"Hell, no," Bob was emphatic about that. "I let them try to write like me."
-- Novalyne Price Ellis, One Who Walked Alone
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Post by deuce on Feb 22, 2018 11:12:54 GMT -5
“The man who chooses to follow a dream to its bitter and ultimate end, walks alone.”
-- Robert E. Howard, as quoted in One Who Walked Alone
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Post by deuce on Feb 23, 2018 15:05:25 GMT -5
From a letter to Novalyne:
"You cannot change things or people, and you only make yourself miserable when you try. Life is necessarily a continual series of compromises. No one is perfect, nor is anything perfect nor can anything or anyone be perfect. If one is to live at all, one is forced to accept the faults of life along with the virtues. In judging the desirability of anything, we do not discard it because it is not perfect, because nothing can be perfect. We weigh the good points and the bad; if the bad outweigh the good, we discard it; but if the balance is anywhere near even, we, as a general rule, keep or use it for the good points and ignore or try to put up with the bad points. It is a simple matter of reasonable tolerance. If we demand perfection in all things, and try to bend all things into our particular pattern of belief, we only hurt ourselves. You cannot change people, because they cannot change themselves; they were cast in an inflexible mold of heredity and circumstances, long before you ever saw them. You beat against an iron wall and hurt yourself and embitter your life."
- Robert E. Howard to Novalyne Price, 5 March 1936
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Post by deuce on Feb 27, 2018 13:25:56 GMT -5
"Mammy [Novalyne's grandmother] was talking about the hardships her people encountered during the War. She told about her father's friend who, when the soldiers came, refused to tell where his money was hidden. They tied him to a chair, hit him, beat him. They heated a poker red hot. Over and over, in spite of everything, he refused to tell them where his money was buried. They burned his eyes out. Bob reacted to the story as if he himself had had his eyes burned out, or had seen the tragedy unfold. He dropped his fork, clenched his fists, and wanted to kill them all."
-- Novalyne Price, One Who Walked Alone
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Post by Freebooter on Feb 27, 2018 14:19:38 GMT -5
"Mammy [Novalyne's grandmother] was talking about the hardships her people encountered during the War. She told about her father's friend who, when the soldiers came, refused to tell where his money was hidden. They tied him to a chair, hit him, beat him. They heated a poker red hot. Over and over, in spite of everything, he refused to tell them where his money was buried. They burned his eyes out. Bob reacted to the story as if he himself had had his eyes burned out, or had seen the tragedy unfold. He dropped his fork, clenched his fists, and wanted to kill them all."
Deuce, I know just how he felt, I have felt the same way many times. I grew up on stories told by my grandmother and mother, who wre told these stories to them by my great grandmama who was there as a child when that same Yankee scum broke into their home in Columbia, SC and immediately destroyed everything; portraits, vases, glasswear, Chopped up their piano, etc. They tried to make them (only women in the house) tell where their valuables suh as money and silverware, was hidden. They got lines of infantry with fixed bayonets to walk in line poking the ground in their yard and garden. Everytime I think of it I feel JUST as REH did. Sherman was a war criminal who condoned all this, burning and looting a swath 60 miles wide through Ga and SC.
-- Novalyne Price, One Who Walked Alone
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Post by deuce on Mar 9, 2018 11:45:30 GMT -5
"Today [March 9, 2018] is the 110th anniversary of the birth of Novalyne Price Ellis, author of One Who Walked Alone: Robert E. Howard, The Final Years (Donald M. Grant, 1986), the memoir upon which the movie The Whole Wide World (1996) was based. If you haven’t seen that movie, with Vincent D’Onofrio as Robert E. Howard and Renee Zellwegger as Novalyne Price, you really should. Even people who aren’t especially interested in Howard’s work have enjoyed this indy film about two young people striving to realize their dreams in Depression-era Texas, whose relationship steers toward romance but is tossed about on the seas of two strong wills. It was appropriate, I think, that the movie basically was willed into existence by one of Novalyne’s former students, Michael Scott Myers.
I had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know Novalyne after the book came out, and found that none of the “Texas spitfire” had dimmed: she was a lady who knew her mind and figured you oughta know it, too. She had a long and illustrious career teaching speech and debate, crowned by her election to the National Forensic League’s Hall of Fame in 1981. I was an old high-school debater, so this was another thing that cemented our friendship. I transcribed a lengthy interview with her that became part of the chapbook, Day of the Stranger: Further Memories of Robert E. Howard (Necronomicon Press, 1989). The book also included the titular radio play she had written in the ‘40s, featuring characters based on herself and Howard (the play was performed and released on a CD by Mark Finn, Cathy Day, and the Violet Crown Radio Players in 2004), and the text of the speech she gave at a banquet at the 1988 World Science Fiction Convention in New Orleans.
She was a marvelous lady, and a real joy to converse with on a wide range of topics. Whenever I was with her I never wanted the visit to end. Happy birthday, Mrs. Ellis!"
-- REH biographer and scholar, Rusty BurkeNovalyne in 1927.
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Post by deuce on Mar 30, 2018 20:59:03 GMT -5
Novalyne died 19 years ago today. I, for one, am grateful for the glimpses into Bob's life that she gave us. She did a lot to defend the legacy of REH when others sought to paint a distorted picture. Requiescat en pace. infogalactic.com/info/Novalyne_Price_Ellis
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Post by Von K on Jan 22, 2023 12:47:34 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2023 13:52:17 GMT -5
Thanks for the link Von K. I'd raise a huge bowl of fermented mare's milk in honour of REH, but it is the wrong time of year for Ayrag/kumiz, under the circumstances a bottle of JD will have to do. Happy Birthday REH
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Post by Von K on Jan 22, 2023 14:10:52 GMT -5
Thanks for the link Von K. I'd raise a huge bowl of fermented mare's milk in honour of REH, but it is the wrong time of year for Ayrag/kumiz, under the circumstances a bottle of JD will have to do. Happy Birthday REH Who knows, but maybe somewhere I'd like to imagine REH hoisting a schooner of Pearl xxx beer in reciprocation with you Hun.
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