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Howard's Cōnǝn. Not de Camp's. Not Marvel's. Not film's. Born on a battlefield; parents weren't murdered; didn't grow up a slave; black hair; blue eyes.

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And that's the end of Part 2.

I'll work on Part 3 this weekend.

Fight on, Cimmerians!

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...hell, I’ve been everything except a king, and I may be that, before I die.”

Even here, he doesn’t sound like a man who had a life’s ambition to be a king; more like someone convincing himself that it’s an option he’s willing to consider at this point. Or not.

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...a manifest destiny; so, of course, de Camp made one up for him in Conan of the Isles.

In writing Conan, Howard stated: “Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, ...

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In Tower of the Elephant, Conan finds the Zamorans "...strange and mysterious to him; they were not of his kind – not even of the same blood as the more westerly Brythunians, Nemedians, Kothians and Aquilonians, whose civilized mysteries had awed him in times past."

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...a little thing like a spinning dust-cloud, or the hollow crying of a bird, or the moan of the wind through bare branches can bring to their gloomy minds the emptiness of life and the vainness of existence. Only in war do Cimmerians find happiness.

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