Know, oh 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 undreamt of, ... Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a theif, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet."
-The Nemedian Chronicles
.......been a long time since I read those lines.....Almost makes me feel young again.......I used to have all the Robert E. Howard Conan stuff in my early teens......I really enjoyed reading & rereading them....
Until Arnold butchered the character in the movies...
......oops, gotta go, baby's crying