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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Blogging Kull: The Striking of the Gong

Kull:  Exile of Atlantis
Del Rey
trade paper, 317 p., $17

This is one of the shorter Kull stories, only three and a half pages in the Del Rey edition.  In fact it's more of vignette or a philosophical meditation than an actual story.  In it Howard reflects on some of the philosophy he'd been reading and meditating on.

The story, to the extent that it is a story, consists mostly of a dialogue between Kull and an old man.  Kull finds himself in darkness, a great throbbing in his head.  He's not sure where he is or how he came to be there.  He rises to his feet, sees a light, and begins to walk towards it.