“Remember, Sully, when I promised I wouldn’t make these movie reviews a thing?”
“That’s right, Spoony, you did!”
“I lied.”
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Tag: heroic fantasy
Cimmerian, Yes, But No Barbarian
“Know, o prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars […] Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian; black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.”
Proof that even purple prose can be good, when done right.
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