It's been a while...
Lately I seem unable to focus on linguistics, at all.
Work and college consume almost all of my time, and the little I have to spare I'm using to finish reading some books I started some 3 or 4 months ago. One of them, Conan the Cimmerian, is the best read I've had in a long time. Robert E. Howard was truly a master of pulp fantasy, or sword and sorcery, as some call the genre. His stories are dark, rich, full of descriptions and, most interestingly for a conworlder, deep. Aparently, after writting two or three stories set in Hyboria, Howard wrote a short (some 4000 words iirc) essay called the Hyborian Age, where he set all the background he needed to tie the stories in a cohesive way.
An appendix in that book names a book by one Thomas Bulfinch; perhaps it's worth further reading...
Lately I seem unable to focus on linguistics, at all.
Work and college consume almost all of my time, and the little I have to spare I'm using to finish reading some books I started some 3 or 4 months ago. One of them, Conan the Cimmerian, is the best read I've had in a long time. Robert E. Howard was truly a master of pulp fantasy, or sword and sorcery, as some call the genre. His stories are dark, rich, full of descriptions and, most interestingly for a conworlder, deep. Aparently, after writting two or three stories set in Hyboria, Howard wrote a short (some 4000 words iirc) essay called the Hyborian Age, where he set all the background he needed to tie the stories in a cohesive way.
An appendix in that book names a book by one Thomas Bulfinch; perhaps it's worth further reading...
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