‘The Pulse of Life’
James LaFond's Impressions of A Moment by Robert E. Howard
© 2018 James LaFond
JUN/20/18
Reading from page 81 of A Word from the Outer Dark
Four verses of four lines each are the time it took for Robert E. Howard to reverse his negative exposure lens and bring to bear his sharpest tool in the exposition of heroism among horror and savagery, which was his stock-in-trade. There is something deeply horrific about Howard’s settings, something that does not square with his lack of graphic gore and his reticence towards the minutia of killing.
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masculine axis
by the wine dark sea
thriving in bad places
beasts of aryas
fanatic
the greatest lie ever sold
fate
the combat space
triumph
book of nightmares
night city
let the world fend for itself
into leviathan’s maw
winter of a fighting life
solo boxing
sons of aryas
advent america
son of a lesser god
broken dance
predation
uncle satan
the greatest boxer
sorcerer!
time & cosmos
ranger?
dark, distant futures
the first boxers
the lesser angels of our nature
wife—
the fighting edge
under the god of things
songs of aryas
on combat
logic of force
z-pill forever
blue eyed daughter of zeus
the gods of boxing
menthol rampage
honor among men
cracker-boy
america the brutal
taboo you
song of the secret gardener
orphan nation
all-power-fighting
your trojan whorse
within leviathan’s craw
fiction anthology one
hate
barbarism versus civilization
on the overton railroad
when you're food
the sunset saga complete
the year the world took the z-pill
logic of steel