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Post by keith on Aug 30, 2018 8:03:09 GMT -5
If Howard's work is garbage then the Iliad and the Odyssey are garbage as well...and for that matter most of the bible is garbage. Truth is, fantasy, like Howard wrote, has sustained man and his imagination for thousands of years. And it has inspired him as well...fluck the so called critics...who the hell are they anyhow...frustrated writers IM sure who couldn't write anything half as good as Howard's worse stories
Howard inspired me to not only write, but to read. I never read or wrote anything until one day I came across the Conan comics
I'll go along with that. In fact I reckon Conan is a lot more moral and decent than Achilles, and the principles Howard expresses, through Conan's mouth, in for instance "The Scarlet Citadel" when he confronts the two treacherous kings as their captive and points out, vehemently, that he's a better king than they are no matter how much of a barbaric upstart, because "no noble dares maltreat the humblest of my subjects, and the taxes of the people are lighter than anywhere else in the world," beat the hell out of anything in the Old Testament. Especially his refusal to persecute religions that aren't the official one, like the Temple of Asura.
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