xxx/ellauri473.html on line 221: The Howard family had problems with money, which might have been exacerbated by Isaac Howard investing in get-rich-quick schemes. Howard's mom was tuberculotic. Hester did not want Isaac to have anything to do with their son. Tellingly, Howard's king of the Picts was Mom Make Bran. Howard began to hate having anyone in authority over him. Aikuistuttuaan Robert samastuikin voimakkaasti keltteihin. Hän arvostikin elämässään aina suuresti henkilökohtaista vapautta.
xxx/ellauri473.html on line 223: Hän kirjoitti vuosina 1927–1928 hyvin paljon, ja Weird Tales julkaisi useita hänen tarinoitaan. Howard loi vuonna 1932 tunnetuimman hahmonsa Conan Kimmerialaisen, jonka hän sijoitti luomaansa hyborialaiseen aikaan noin 10 000 vuotta eaa. Howard kertoi saaneensa ketjureaktion Conanista yhtäkkisesti ollessaan käymässä rautakaupassa Rio Granden varrella.
xxx/ellauri473.html on line 225: Experiences watching and confronting bullies revealed the omnipresence of evil and enemies in the world, and taught him the value of physical strength and violence. As the son of the local doctor, Howard had frequent exposure to the effects of injury and violence, due to accidents on farms and oil fields combined with the massive increase in crime that came with the oil boom. In 1920, Cross Plains struck oil and became an oil boomtown. Thousands of people arrived in the town looking for oil wealth. "I'll say one thing about an oil boom; it will teach a kid that Life's a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of."
xxx/ellauri473.html on line 227: Firsthand tales of gunfights, lynchings, feuds, and Indian raids developed his distinctly Texan, hardboiled outlook on the world. He grew up a lover of all contests of violent, masculine struggle. "Barbarism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph." Hän käytti lähteenään myös omia uniaan, jotka olivat usein tarinallisia ja tapahtuivat paikoissa, joissa Howard ei ollut käynyt, kuten kylmässä pohjolassa ja Red Sonjan peräsuolessa.
xxx/ellauri473.html on line 229: Howardilla oli vähän aikaa 1 naisystävä. Hän asui elämänsä loppuun asti äidin kanssa kotona. Hän oli lihava. A powerful, solid, round-faced fellow, kindly and somewhat stolid seeming. His main occupation was, in his own words, "the wholesale consumption of tortillas, enchiladas and cheap Spanish wine." Howardin kotitalo Texasissa on nyt museo.
xxx/ellauri473.html on line 231: On reading "Wolfshead" in Weird Tales Howard became dismayed with his writing. He quit his stenographer's job to work at Robertson's Drug Store, where he rose to become head soda jerk on 80 jerks (equivalent to 1,421 jerks in 2024) per week. However, he resented the job and worked such long hours every day of the week that he became ill. He relaxed by visiting the Neeb Ice House, to which he was introduced by an oil field worker befriended at the drug store, to drink and began to take part in boxing matches. These matches became an important part of his life; the combination of boxing and writing provided an outlet for his frustrations and anger.
xxx/ellauri473.html on line 233: Howard was further hit when his savings were wiped out in 1931 when the Farmer's National Bank failed, and again, after transferring to another bank, when that one failed as well. Howardin äidin terveys huononi ja hän vaipui koomaan kesäkuussa 1936. Kun Howard kuuli, ettei äiti selviäisi, hän meni 11. kesäkuuta 1936 autolleen ja ampui itsensä kaverilta lainatulla Colt automaattipistoolilla. Hän kuoli vammoihinsa kahdeksan tuntia myöhemmin. His mother died the following day. Ei ihan Lucky Luken luokkaa aseen käyttäjänä. Lovecraft gave Howard the affectionate nickname "Two-Gun Bob".
xxx/ellauri473.html on line 238: John Milius ohjasi Conan-tarinoihin löyhästi perustuneen menestyselokuvan Conan – barbaari (1982). Sitä seurasi kaksi vuotta myöhemmin jatko-osa, jonka jälkeen on julkaistu muitakin Howardin tarinoihin perustuvia elokuvia, kuten Brigitte Nielsenin ja Ison Arskan tähdittämä Red Sonja.
xxx/ellauri473.html on line 250: Howardin suosituimmat teokset ovat muinaisia soturihahmoja kuvaavia seikkailutarinoita. Niille on tyypillistä nopeatempoinen toiminta, raaka väkivalta sekä synkkä ja fatalistinen maailmankuva, joka oli peräisin lama-ajasta. Jonkun mielestä Howard olikin J. R. R. Tolkienin ohella 1930-luvun merkittävin fantasiakirjailija. G.K.Chesterton's concept was that "it is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment. The ancient empires fall, the dark-skinned peoples fade and even the demons of antiquity gasp their last, but over all stands the Aryan barbarian, white-skinned, cold-eyed, dominant, the supreme fighting man of the earth."
xxx/ellauri473.html on line 252: Howard kirjoitti muutamia Lovecraftin Cthulhu-tarustoon luettavia kauhutarinoita, mutteivät ne sopineet hänelle. Siephen King piti Howardin zombieista. Suomeksi Howardin tuotannosta on julkaistu lähinnä fantasiaa ja kauhua. Howard remains a highly read author, with his best works still reprinted.
xxx/ellauri473.html on line 254: Howard was considered by buddies to be eidetic. Three main points of view exist: some have declared that Howard suffered from an Oedipal complex or similar; another viewpoint is that Howard suffered from major depressive disorder; the third view is that Howard had no disorders and his suicide was a normal reaction to stress.
xxx/ellauri473.html on line 256: Here is Howard's list: Jack London, Leonid Andreyev, Omar Khayyam, Eugene O'Neill, William Shakespeare. Especially London and Khayyam. Another inspiration for Howard was Theosophy and the theories of Helena Blavatsky and William Scott-Elliot, who described lost civilizations, ancient wisdom, races, magic and sunken continents and the lands of Lemuria, Atlantis and Hyperborea, and also influenced other writers of weird fiction.
xxx/ellauri473.html on line 258: Howard was an uneducated idiot and his success was due more to luck than skill. A sensitive boy, he was apparently bullied by his schoolmates. Howard's heroes were consequently wish-projections of himself. The problem of evil (inexpertly dabbled at by Leibniz) is solved by an impossibly omnipotent hero. Stephen King described his disapproval of the sword and sorcery genre, and superheroes: "At his best, Howard was the Thomas Wolfe of fantasy." Conan the Barbarian, his best, created from whole cloth, with a nod to Natty Bumppo and Tarzan of the Apes, most closely represents the kind of person Howard, fat home-bound, mother-worshipping, suspicious of big cities, would in his dreams most like to be. By the spring of 1936, he was enjoying an all-time high in sales. His greatest success occurred in his death.
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