'Even in Menace'
The Thrust of a Knife: Chapter 6 of Robert E. Howard’s Hour of the Dragon
© 2019 James LaFond
NOV/19/19
Reading from pages 120-130 of the DelRey edition
The illustration is darkly set in shadow with Conan gauntly powerful and appearing almost like a Comanche warrior, which might have pleased Howard, and seems to have been based on the original Weird Tales depiction of Conan from Red Nails, with Zenobia cringing beneath his shoulder.
Conan is depicted from the outset of the chapter being held in the grip of a deep fear and fleeing up the stairs in panic, where he is reunited with the beauty, Zenobia, a woman of real fears and desires...
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fanatic
wife—
advent america
orphan nation
barbarism versus civilization
z-pill forever
masculine axis
time & cosmos
honor among men
under the god of things
menthol rampage
uncle satan
book of nightmares
the combat space
the greatest boxer
within leviathan’s craw
on the overton railroad
ranger?
the sunset saga complete
thriving in bad places
dark, distant futures
on combat
cracker-boy
blue eyed daughter of zeus
sons of aryas
solo boxing
fate
logic of force
song of the secret gardener
america the brutal
into leviathan’s maw
predation
night city
when you're food
winter of a fighting life
broken dance
all-power-fighting
the greatest lie ever sold
let the world fend for itself
fiction anthology one
the gods of boxing
the fighting edge
hate
the year the world took the z-pill
your trojan whorse
taboo you
logic of steel
by the wine dark sea
beasts of aryas
the first boxers
the lesser angels of our nature
triumph
sorcerer!
son of a lesser god
songs of aryas
I was a Yippie, never a hippie. Robert E. is, I'm sure, the progenitor of a spectacle I witnessed at an Amboy Dukes concert in 72 or so. When Ted was introducing the then new song "Sweet Revenge" song he talked about how the Mad Cheese Grater would deal with being assaulted by a punk wielding a pocket knife. "If he cuts one inch on the arm or the leg, certain pagan heroes of legend would go home, get their six foot sword, return and shove it up that person's ass". Loved Ted then.