Davide Mana
Subject: DG: Humboldt's literary background?
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 13:54:17 +0100
Greetings.
This morning some very old reference came to my mind, linking nazis with a
charismathic black leader in a rather circuitous way.
So...
A question for the MIB and all the rest
Have you ever read a thing called "The last white man", by Robert E. Howard?
The short story was published here in Italy by a very sinister publisher,
in the same series with "Auschwitz, the First Gassing", and the "Treaty on
the Superiority of the Aryan Stock", and other stuff about the fact that
the Jews fabricated all the stuff about the Holocaust and what else.
I found the booklet - later stolen from my collection - at the annual Turin
Book Fair in '89, buying it directly from the publisher's boot without
knowing all the background, simply as an addition to my REH collection.
They also gave me a catalogue that I pocketed without thinking.
It was only later that evening, perusing the small book, that I found poor
Mrs Howard's boy turned into "a prophet of racial purity", "a master of
hard science fiction [what a laugh!] that in the 30s had already envisioned
the decadence of the white man", presenting "a dramathic admonition about
the incumbent African menace" and loads of other such crap.
The volume included an introduction (18 pages or thereabouts) almost
offensive in its biographical imprecision [Howard an Aryan? Look at the
pics, guys!] and tendentiousness, the story proper (8 pages) and an
afterword (25 pages) that if possible is even worse than the introduction.
There was also a handful of ink drawings - pretty ugly, or at least very
hastily executed.
Honestly, I went through the thing, chiefly out of respect for Howard as a
writer and bacause of the old Simpson tenement "I paid it, I have to finish
it (and often it's hard)", but it felt incredibly bad.
The story is offensive in its simplistic positions, and the learned critics
[yeah, right!] babbling about Aryan supremacy in the related articles are
scary as hell.
What has all this to do with EH, Humboldt, Karotechia and Delta Green?
The short story - that Howard apparently wrote when he was 14 - is the
first (that I know of, at least) in which the author exposes his theory -
later recycled in the Skull Face serial and countless other occasions -
that the African peoples have been patiently waiting all these years for a
charismatic leader (sort of a black messiah) to lead them in a great tidal
sweep of destruction over the white man's lands.
Now...
Is Humboldt trying to fit the bill?
Are the Dritte Threesome cashing on this?
And is he the Real Thing, or just a K. nurtured fake to cheat the natives?
Humbly submitted for your consideration.
The Man in Black
Subject: Re: DG: Humboldt's literary background?
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:35:54 -0500 (EST)
THWACK~! A line drive way out in left field by "The Italian Stallion"
Davide Mana. Snatched and sent to first. Mana is back in the dugout folks.
> A question for the MIB and all the rest
>
> Have you ever read a thing called "The last white man", by Robert E. Howard?
Nope, sounds facinating, mail me a copy :)
But seriously, my exposure to White Power is mostly through bad movies and
the Internet. Thank Gawd for all the boneheaded Neo-Nazi websites out
there, or I'd be in deep trouble with EH.
Davide Mana
Subject: Re: DG: Humboldt's literary background?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 01:20:34 +0100
Hi.
> Nope, sounds facinating, mail me a copy :)
I can't.
first - somebody "borrowed" my copy and never returned it (bastard!)
second - I would never again come into touch with those guys; I'm too
afraid the enraged ghost of my grandfather would come to torment me for
having commerce with the Nazis.
But I can summarize it quite fast.
Last white man looking down the valley where the ordes of the black devils
are feasting on the remnants of a once proud civilization. The guy is the
last of his race and is planning a kamikaze attack on the enemy as the sun
rises - very Conan like and all that. While he waits for the sun, he
remembers how all this came to pass.
- appearence of a Black Messiah in Africa
- Africans united in a single mighty army of fanatics
- single mighty army equipped by lousy double dealing middle-eastern
and Jewish weasels (will be the first one to be swallowed buy
the tide. Serves them right)
- African hordes flood Europe and Asia. The Chinese are the
first to go. Proud Europeans (= Brits and Krauts, now allied)
try to put up the good fight but have been too lazy to long.
Goodbye, old continent. Warlike Japan goes next.
- when Uncle Sam's turn comes, the boys in blue kick real ass,
but they've been undermined by the afroamerican traitors
(of course pumped by Jews and other half-bloods) living
among them. It's a strenuous fight, but to no avail.
- now human civilization is falling back to primitive
standards and what's left's bound for extinction anyway,
as the black hordes are so mindless that they not only
do not know how to keep stuff working, but are more willing
to kill each other than to reproduce.
So, as the man said, the end is nigh.
Sun rises, white chap goes and buys it.
End of story.
The story is bad - not only in its mindless and aggressive racism, but
really badly written - and made me feel filthy for reading it.
14 years old Robert E. Howard was a very unpleasant character.
Now, a note about the Nazi afterword.
First, it was even worst than Howard story.
Second, there was a distinctive glee in the tone of the writer, as she was
taking the idea of a monolithic black menace quite seriously, but at the
same time felt quite good about the "subhumans" cleaning the map of all
those half-assed white men that did not have the guts or the inspiration to
pick up their rightful position as overlords of creation.
It was this detail that sprang to my mind in the Humboldt discussion.
And this is it.
It's been a long sad day, it's now very late and I go for a power nap.
The Man in Black
Subject: Re: DG: Humboldt's literary background?
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 21:03:58 -0500 (EST)
"Italian Stallion" Davide Mana steps up to bat. MiB lowers the mad gleam
of the pitcher's glare from behind his jet black glove. Mana's unflinching
steely gaze is unwavering as he grips his bat. Like gunfighters in a
spaghetti western, they stare. A tumbleweed blows across Emerald Hammer
Stadium. Award winning whistling music plays across the silent stands.
Sweat drips... Tension mounts... The wind up... and the pitch... BONK~!
The Italian Stallion has been beaned! The dugouts clear! It's chaos on the
field! The crowd goes wild!
> >Nope, sounds facinating, mail me a copy :)
>
> I can't. first - somebody "borrowed" my copy and never returned it
> (bastard!) second - I would never again come into touch with those
> guys; I'm too afraid the enraged ghost of my grandfather would come to
> torment me for having commerce with the Nazis.
I'm not interested in your petty excuses! Go to a hypnotist, recall every
word and write it down and mail it to me! NOW! :)
> But I can summarize it quite fast.
>
> Last white man looking down the valley where the hordes of the black devils
> are feasting on the remnants...
[ludicrous racist story redacted]
Kewl. Humbolt Lives!
> It's been a long sad day, it's now very late and I go for a power nap.
Nighty nite! Don't let the monstrously mutated NWI bedbugs bite.
David Farnell
Subject: RE: DG: Humboldt's literary background?
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 08:45:41 +0900
Davide Mana wrote:
>The story is bad - not only in its mindless and aggressive racism, but
>really badly written - and made me feel filthy for reading it.
>14 years old Robert E. Howard was a very unpleasant character.
Hey, 2 Texas writers mentioned in one day! Robert E. Howard and Kinky
Friedman, two guys who probably would NOT have gotten along. I've come
across enough Howard stories with blatant racist slants that I've just given
up on anything but a few classic Conan stories and the like. Just about
everything set in "the real world" of cowboys and such made me want to
retch. Still, you've gotta wonder what would've happened if he'd not pulled
that trigger and went on to keep writing through WW2 and the big change in
public attitude toward racism. HPL thought "Two-Gun's" writing was hackwork,
but was certain that the boy would have transcended pulp and gone on to
write some very fine stuff.
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