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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2018 6:36:07 GMT -5
I thought a glossary of foreign terms in REH's "desert adventure" yarns would be helpful. Many of the terms also turn up in Howard's other historical adventures set in Asia and Africa. Let's get started. abba — meaning the aba: a long, loose sleeveless outer garment of aba fabric or of fine silk worn chiefly by Bedouin Arabs. Wiki: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aba
Great idea for a thread Deuce. I have managed to find the good ol' abba mentioned in at least a couple of the El Borak yarns - thanks to google, cos my memory is not that good . A wadi or gully broke the plain ahead of him, meandering to a point within a few hundred feet of the Well. Gordon crept toward it, taking advantage of every bit of cover. He had almost reached it, at a point a hundred yards from the Well, when a man in white kafieh and ragged abba materialized from among the palms. Discovery in the growing light was instant. The Arab yelled and fired. The bullet knocked up dust a foot from Gordon’s knee, as he crouched on the edge of the gully, and he fired back. The Arab cried out, dropped his rifle and staggered drunkenly back among the palms. Blood of the Gods, p.241, El Borak and Other Desert adventures, Del Rey. Mitkhal ran toward him, yelling furiously, and snapping a pistol at him. The shaykh, in the confusion of the fighting, did not seem to be aware that the gun was empty, for he pulled the trigger again and again as he stood in the path of the oncoming rider. Only at the last moment did he realize his peril and leap back. Even so, he would have sprung clear had not his sandal heel caught in a dead man’s abba. p.359, Son of the White Wolf, El Borak and Other Desert adventures, Del Rey. Son of the White Wolf was also freely adapted/Conanized by Roy Thomas in SSOC 37.
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Post by deepermagic on Feb 27, 2018 14:50:59 GMT -5
I've been plowing away at these Del Ray books. Finished up Sword Woman last month and am now knee deep in the El Borak book.
Holy smokes! Howard was such a brilliant writer/storyteller. I'm in the middle of "Three Bladed Doom" and it's straight up everything I love about Howard. I'm reading it as slow as I can because I don't even want it to end.
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Post by deuce on Mar 3, 2018 11:58:38 GMT -5
I've been plowing away at these Del Ray books. Finished up Sword Woman last month and am now knee deep in the El Borak book. Holy smokes! Howard was such a brilliant writer/storyteller. I'm in the middle of "Three Bladed Doom" and it's straight up everything I love about Howard. I'm reading it as slow as I can because I don't even want it to end. I remember reading TBD when I was about 14. Blew me away. I like that REH was edging a little more into the supernatural/"weird" angle with this one. If I were you, after finishing the "long" version in the front of the Del Rey, I'd jump to the "short" version of TBD in the back. Howard introduces an element that might even have roots in the Hyborian Age. This is a little surprising, since REH wrote that version after the long version in an effort to make TBD more sellable. That means, despite him trimming/editing like hell, Howard felt that element needed to be in the story.
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Post by deuce on Sept 9, 2018 2:56:27 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2018 1:43:20 GMT -5
At the Cromcast Podcast they'll be taking the road east and exploring the REH's El Borak yarns, with a touch of Talbot Mundy, Harold Lamb's Cossack yarns and the Soul of a Turk. Here's the reading list: The Daughter of Ehrlik Khan, by Robert E. Howard The Soul of a Regiment by Talbot Mundy Hawk of the Hills, by Robert E. Howard A Khlit the Cossack tale by Harold Lamb (Story TBD) The Man Who Would be King [Film], Directed by John Huston The Soul of a Turk, by Abdullah Achmed Blood of the Gods, by Robert E. Howard The Sowers of the Thunder, by Robert E. Howard Link: thecromcast.blogspot.com/2018/11/season-8-road-east.html
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2018 1:42:53 GMT -5
Over at Cromcast they take a look at El Borak with The Daughter of Erlik Khan: thecromcast.blogspot.com/2018/11/season-8-episode-1-daughter-of-erlik.htmlCromcast have also introduced a new element to the podcast with a text analysis of the yarn using statistical software. Here's the Sentiment Score, Word Frequency and Word Cloud: Within the text of "The Daughter of Erlik Khan", we found a total of 557 positive words and 1,110 negative words using the methods outlined above. That gives us a sentiment score of -553 for this story. That means the tone of the story is generally negative, and you can explain it from the amount of combat and bloodshed that takes place!
It will be interesting to see how other stories in this season score in comparison to "The Daughter of Erlik Khan"!
The top eleven most frequently used words are:
Word Freq. gordon 257 man 93 men 93 like 89 one 75 yogok 75 back 67 ormond 64 will 51 came 49 knew 49
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2019 10:38:03 GMT -5
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Post by korak on Jul 28, 2019 1:12:23 GMT -5
i wish they would make a Ek Borak movie
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Post by charleshelm on Jul 28, 2019 10:06:00 GMT -5
i wish they would make a Ek Borak movie Same....
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Post by themirrorthief on Jul 29, 2019 1:26:53 GMT -5
they did, it was called Raiders of the Lost Ark
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Post by thedarkman on Jul 30, 2019 6:42:19 GMT -5
they did, it was called Raiders of the Lost Ark I love Indy, but he’s no El Borak...
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Post by korak on Aug 16, 2019 23:44:39 GMT -5
they did, it was called Raiders of the Lost Ark I love Indy, but he’s no El Borak... I have to second that 😄
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Post by deuce on Aug 17, 2019 2:38:29 GMT -5
I love Indy, but he’s no El Borak... I have to second that 😄 ...and I'll third that.
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Post by themirrorthief on Aug 18, 2019 21:31:41 GMT -5
true, El Borak never got a movie
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Post by korak on Aug 29, 2019 14:53:58 GMT -5
true, El Borak never got a movie He should get a movie....🤔🤔Heck I am prolly about his height so I could play a balding middle age Borak 😂😂😂
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