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Episode 111: What Is Best in Life: On "Conan the Barbarian"

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Sword and Sorcery in Science Fiction

Sorcery changes you from the inside out. It kind of rearranges your molecular structure. It makes you thirst for power. And so it will tend to a make really, really vile, kind of horrible people. I love that kind of athos of sworda sorcery where te heroes are not necessarily heroic. They're more like scoundrels who are given access to heroism by virtue of their outsider status. So i just love the whole feelingnd, and it's perfectly named.

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