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Post by deepermagic on Jan 22, 2018 10:35:23 GMT -5
Today's Robert E. Howard's birthday. 112!
In honor of him this day I'm wearing a barbarian invoking Frazetta shirt and shall be sampling all day from the historical adventures in the Del Rey edition of "Sword Woman". And I'll drink one tonight for him.
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Jan 22, 2018 10:51:33 GMT -5
Today's Robert E. Howard's birthday. 122nd I believe. In honor of him this day I'm wearing a barbarian invoking Frazetta shirt and shall be sampling all day from the historical adventures in the Del Rey edition of "Sword Woman". And I'll drink one tonight for him.  Right on! |
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Post by deuce on Jan 22, 2018 12:18:39 GMT -5
REH didn't mention his birthday that often in his letters. Here's one of the rare instances:
"My own library was generally the largest in the place I lived, but it was small. I generally was given a book on Christmas and on my birthday."
-- Robert E. Howard to H. P. Lovecraft,
July 1933
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Post by bunty0barbarian on Jan 22, 2018 13:17:25 GMT -5
All I can say is that REH's works are the most passionate I've come across, completely drenched in atmosphere, writing, and characters. I am still waiting for my Bran Mak Morn collection. Fuckin Amazon. Oh and there is a Kull kickstarter thread on the Cimmerian sub-reddit. It is about re-printing the 3 public domain Kull stories with interior illustration. You guys can check it out if u want. I will create a thread in the Kull section but I am feeling sleepy now.
Nighty Night.
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Post by deuce on Jan 22, 2018 13:26:47 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jan 22, 2018 13:29:34 GMT -5
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Post by Jason Aiken on Jan 22, 2018 19:48:16 GMT -5
Happy Birthday to REH!
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Post by almuric on Jan 22, 2018 20:19:08 GMT -5
Drinking to his shade with orange juice, as is my custom.
Mead is hard to come by, you know.
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Post by Erik on Jan 22, 2018 21:08:42 GMT -5
I don't need an excuse to have my glass of wine, but tonight I have a great one.
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Post by deuce on Jan 23, 2018 0:44:55 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jan 23, 2018 1:10:34 GMT -5
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Post by thedarkman on Jan 23, 2018 7:04:00 GMT -5
Last night I raised a glass to the shade of REH, and enjoyed again one of my favorite tales; People of the Dark. I just love this tale, and Conan of the Reavers is my favorite one-off characters. Wish there were a few more of his adventures written...
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Post by deuce on Jan 23, 2018 11:52:51 GMT -5
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Post by kullagain on Jan 23, 2018 14:04:03 GMT -5
Robert the Replacer
As Nietzsche once spake that God is now dead
His Dark laughed to the ever-burn of fire
But one took them both and from his own head
Played the songs of either with pulpy Lyre
For ordered chaos is the call to arms
Be they words or weapons in human hands
So that rife will eats at chains of harms
As all flame smoulders against icy bands
And when Fate marches a black colossus
The cosmos assay a fatum of nature
And thus do they judge one's regal promise
Be they writer or warrior by nurture
Thence does the abysmal titan fall
At the smite of smaller gods' might
Vim and virile the memory mauls
Of Howard, who became—a King of the Night!
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Post by deuce on Jan 25, 2018 1:42:29 GMT -5
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