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humans and humanity in desperate but not fruitless battles to overcome the forces of time and decay. All of Howard’s characters fit more or less into the heroic mode. John Jakes’ Brak the Barbarian and Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray
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“As Samuel Pepys would chirp—”
― The Snarl of the Beast: Race Williams #17
― The Snarl of the Beast: Race Williams #17
“It all sounds like braggadocio, I suppose. But I can’t help that. It’s just the way I felt. Truth is truth, you know.”
― The Snarl of the Beast: Race Williams #17
― The Snarl of the Beast: Race Williams #17
“Them that live by the gun should die by the gun, is good sound twentieth century gospel.”
― The Snarl of the Beast: Race Williams #17
― The Snarl of the Beast: Race Williams #17
“The dead so soon grow cold.” Funny that I got that off. It was years since I had read Oscar Wilde or any of his wise cracks.”
― The Snarl of the Beast: Race Williams #17
― The Snarl of the Beast: Race Williams #17
“Funny things that come over you then. What did I think of? Death, and all that—and did the faces of dead gunmen bob up before me? No, just one thing shot through my mind. I skipped back to my childhood and seemed to be with Alice, of Alice in Wonderland fame, as she fell down the rabbit hole. Queer that—but true, just the same.”
― The Snarl of the Beast: Race Williams #17
― The Snarl of the Beast: Race Williams #17
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