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Post by deuce on Oct 29, 2016 9:26:35 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Nov 1, 2016 21:11:43 GMT -5
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Post by kullagain on Nov 2, 2016 22:49:51 GMT -5
He definitely explored that concept in KOTN and the Kull stories, but I didn't see it too much more in other yarns, not explicit;y anyway. I think it informed his stories rather than focused them, thematically. Are there other stories where it's a visible theme and not just a method behind the scenes to constructing the tale?
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Post by deuce on Nov 5, 2016 22:32:55 GMT -5
He definitely explored that concept in KOTN and the Kull stories, but I didn't see it too much more in other yarns, not explicit;y anyway. I think it informed his stories rather than focused them, thematically. Are there other stories where it's a visible theme and not just a method behind the scenes to constructing the tale? That quote is from the '20s. REH wrote a lot of yarns in the '20s exploring perception, illusion, space/time and dreams. Slacked off a lot in the '30s, but there are still many elements of it in the Conan yarns, etc. |
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Post by deuce on Dec 3, 2016 12:19:24 GMT -5
"Curious how adversity levels the species and makes us all brothers under our fur, feathers or hide. Nobody could doubt evolution after watching the antics of a man who has just been slapped in the mush by a polecat."
-- Robert E. Howard to August Derleth, 4 July 1935, CL3.331
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Post by neilnv2 on Dec 6, 2016 11:05:06 GMT -5
 Riders of the rainbow
Let it grow let it grow
You can exercise your mind on where you want to go
And y'can see the city lights flashin' two thousand miles below you
You can feel the sands of Zanzibar or pierce the nearest sun
Find out what and who you are and if you need to run
[Chorus]
Riders of the rainbow
Let it grow let it grow
There is one moment in your life and it can come at any time
And you remember all of what went on from the instant you were born
Thru your early years
And if you can fasten on that moment and expand thru the afterglow
You can reverse your mind in time and travel back to when
The earth was formed
The sky was born
And the universe began - Lyrics and music Paul Kantner of Jefferson Starship. The hippy ideal could be to be free of the overreaching ego, to reach into the id. Less the domain of thought and more of imaginative unconscious. - |
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Post by deuce on Dec 28, 2016 11:06:44 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Feb 16, 2017 10:26:28 GMT -5
"College don’t amount to much anyhow. A lot of narrow minded, musty old ideas dispensed by uninterested teachers to pupils who have come to college for athletics, because they considered it the stylish thing or to keep from going to work."
-- Robert E. Howard to Edna Mann, 30 Oct 1926, Collected Letters: Volume One p.114
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Post by deuce on Mar 17, 2017 20:51:31 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jun 13, 2017 7:06:31 GMT -5
"Life is vibrant, red and savage and these insipid sophists who happen to be sitting on the roof drawing room of the world can’t seem to understand that their form of life, what they know as life, what is life to them, is not the real existence, is not important to the rest of the world at all."
-- REH to Tevis Clyde Smith, Dec 1928
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Post by buxom9sorceress on Jun 24, 2017 11:45:46 GMT -5
>>>> WARNING that entire site domain has expired. |
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Post by deuce on Jun 24, 2017 17:06:09 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jun 29, 2017 10:22:46 GMT -5
REH saw what was coming a decade into the future: "International convulsions and gigantic upheavals are hovering in the very air of the world. The richest countries in the world writhe in starvation while the rich folk go blindly to their own doom, like swine who are unaware that the muck they tread on is alive with waking serpents. The wings of Melek Taus hover over the world, the winds whisper of revolt, anarchy, war and red ruin for all the sons of men."
- Robert E. Howard to Tevis Clyde Smith, December 1930 |
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Post by Von K on Jun 29, 2017 11:43:30 GMT -5
I don't want to get into politics here, and maybe I'm exaggerating slightly, but that comment seems equally applicable to our contemporary geopolitical arena, such as I know of it.
Regarding tgr blog, anyone have more news as to what happened? Would be sad to loose that awesome site, as big a loss as the closure of The Cimmerian.
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Post by deuce on Jul 20, 2017 10:15:45 GMT -5
I don't want to get into politics here, and maybe I'm exaggerating slightly, but that comment seems equally applicable to our contemporary geopolitical arena, such as I know of it. REH saw history as cyclical. War, like the poor, has always been with us, even before agriculture and cities. Scratch a man and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed. REH's observations, much like the similar views of Poul Anderson, are always applicable, whether some people find them uncomfortable or not. Humanity is not a blank slate and it has a deep-seated instinct for violence. Diplomacy and duplicity are just war by another means.  |
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