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Post by Tautamus on Jul 13, 2005 6:15:41 GMT -5
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Bryce
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Post by Bryce on Jul 17, 2005 9:38:44 GMT -5
Speaking of Lovecraft, it brings me to mind that Robert Ervin Howard, whose most famed creation is Conan of Cimmeria, was also a case of rabid Aryan monomania. Plentiful are the short stories whose grounding is such: Howard tells a tale at the first person, making his character narrate that he made a mental time-travel back to the "Hyborian age", a time when the shores of Europe were different, the British Isles not yet islands, and great civilizations already existed (!). The narrator awakens from his trance in the body of his far ancestor, a seven-foot tall, blue-eyed barbarian (sometimes blond, in which case he's an "Aesir", red-haired, a "Vanir", or black-haired, either a Cimmerian, or a Gael). He's cast into a local war between tribes or between a barbarian tribe and a decadent kingdom that uses the services of warlocks, which will give him the opportunity to give vent to his inborn Aryan strength and courage. Later, he wakes up back in his own body, mournful about the absurdity of his life in the 1930's and about the vicissitudes of history that mongrelized his blood but fortunately, let him his "kingly Aryan's blue eyes". I read several of these short stories in a book that I borrowed, in 1986, from the entertainment section of the library of the university I was attending. Not all stories are this dumb, I have a book containing nice poetry by Howard.
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Post by Crimson Guard on Jul 20, 2005 0:55:02 GMT -5
Yes "The Rise of the Sons of Aryas" from the Nemedian Chronicles !
Well Howard was certainly a Strange bird from Texas..but he also followed the lead of HG Wells,Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Rice Burroughs...When you read his stories,you can tell that he was inspired by them.Back then it was the Black Haired/Blue Eyed/bronzed skinned ideal of masculinity ,the look of Superior Aryaness,which so gripped Parts of Europe(Britain/Germany) and the USA.
Howard literally ripped ancient places names and made allegory references throughout his work,he often even played with words and names,changing letters and so fourth.
He liked the "Noble Savage" concept which became also very popular at the time...
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Post by Ponto Hardbottle on Jul 20, 2005 2:13:25 GMT -5
You are right. Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells were rather weird. Don't know much about the Tarzan man, but I would guess he was weird too.
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Post by aroundtheworld on Oct 19, 2005 7:44:30 GMT -5
Absolutely horrible. They are supposed to be "superior" but act no different than pack animals.
Brutal and heinous.
Just awful. Now they are the main ones with billions$$$$ in charities for "poor" and mentally disabled. (eye roll) now they are the ones with bleeding hearts cryign on the tele all night about "save the kids". Spare me.
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Post by jam on Oct 24, 2005 15:55:37 GMT -5
Absolutely horrible. They are supposed to be "superior" but act no different than pack animals. Brutal and heinous. Just awful. Now they are the main ones with billions$$$$ in charities for "poor" and mentally disabled. (eye roll) now they are the ones with bleeding hearts cryign on the tele all night about "save the kids". Spare me. Who are "they"? After all, all the people above are dead eons ago. |
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Post by aroundtheworld on Oct 24, 2005 18:37:57 GMT -5
Absolutely horrible. They are supposed to be "superior" but act no different than pack animals. Brutal and heinous. Just awful. Now they are the main ones with billions$$$$ in charities for "poor" and mentally disabled. (eye roll) now they are the ones with bleeding hearts cryign on the tele all night about "save the kids". Spare me. Who are "they"? After all, all the people above are dead eons ago. They supposedly continued the eugenics movement into the 70's. I'll bet some of them are still living, probably heading up charities. |
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