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I just finished reading this for the second time and I thoroughly enjoyed it, more so than the first time. This is a top tier Conan tale that Robert E.Howard wrote, definitely one of my favourites. Howard was on his top form with this one. I'm pleased that I revisited this yarn for Cimmerian September 2025. Cimmerian September is something that Book Tuber Michael K. Vaughan started a few years ago, its great fun to participate in.
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One of my all time favorite short stories!! If you haven't read this one do yourself a favor and sit down and enjoy!
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Reading the lavishly illustrated Donald Grant edition of Queen of the Black Coast (and Vale of Lost Women) at the same time as I am reading Swords of the North, I am struck by the same basic theme - that of an overriding doom that man can only strive against temporarily. "'There is no hope here or hereafter in the cult of my people,' answered Conan. 'In this world men struggle and suffer vainly...'"
It is a gloomy philosophy, this "thing of the North," as Rusty Burke put it in the introduction to ...more
It is a gloomy philosophy, this "thing of the North," as Rusty Burke put it in the introduction to ...more
Philosophy showdown: George Berkeley vs. Conan the Barbarian
"A man born blind, being made to see, would at first have not idea of distance by sight; the sun and stars, the remotest objects as well as the nearer, would all seem to be in his eye, or rather in his mind. The objects intromitted by sight would seem to him (as in truth they are) no other than a new set of thoughts or sensations, each whereof is as near to him as the perception of pain or pleasure or the most inward passions of the sou ...more
"A man born blind, being made to see, would at first have not idea of distance by sight; the sun and stars, the remotest objects as well as the nearer, would all seem to be in his eye, or rather in his mind. The objects intromitted by sight would seem to him (as in truth they are) no other than a new set of thoughts or sensations, each whereof is as near to him as the perception of pain or pleasure or the most inward passions of the sou ...more
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