Éamon de Valera (1882–1975) 3rd President of Ireland
(25 October 1917).
I'm Glad You Asked Me That (2007)
“Conan's hand fell heavily on her naked shoulder.
"Stand aside, girl," he mumbled. "Now is the feasting of swords."”
"Xuthal of the Dusk" (1933)
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Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author
From a letter to Clark Ashton Smith (23 July 1935)
Letters
Context: It may sound fantastic to link the term "realism" with Conan; but as a matter of fact - his supernatural adventures aside - he is the most realistic character I ever evolved. He is simply a combination of a number of men I have known, and I think that's why he seemed to step full-grown into my consciousness when I wrote the first yarn of the series. Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in contact with, and combining them all, produced the amalgamation I call Conan the Cimmerian.
Robert E. Howard The Complete Chronicles of Conan
"The Phoenix on the Sword" (1932)
Source: The Complete Chronicles of Conan
“[Medea] looked toward the gates and found him still even as he went; and alas! as he departed still comelier seemed the stranger to the lovelorn girl: such shoulders, such frame doth he leave to her remembrance.”
Respexit que fores et adhuc invenit euntem,
visus et heu miserae tunc pulchrior hospes amanti
discedens; tales umeros, ea terga relinquit.
Gaius Valerius Flaccus book Argonautica
Source: Argonautica, Book VII, Lines 106–108
