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

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The Rules of Sword and Sorcery

The rule of magic is that sorcery has an innately kind of vile or chaotic nature. You can have good wizards, but these are guys who are playing with hazardous materials. Sorcery tends to corrupt. And so like this works whether we're talking about adventure time, which takes place in some unspecified future after and its aposed apocalyptic fiction. Some people have figured out enough about them that they have them and can kind of use them. There are magics abroad in the land,. every now now and then some malignant, villainous type like tholsa doom willie happen upon it. Otor something out y. Thot amon. Yes, i love that tro.

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