^And quite a few other Robert E. Howard titles as well.

Back around 1972 I was in the vicinity of Cross Plains, Texas, the home of Robert E. Howard, and decided to drop by there and see if anybody remembered him. He had committed suicide there at the age of 30 back in 1936. One fellow told me I was only the third person ever to show up asking about Howard. The consensus was that he was "very weird" (not unsurprisingly).

A few years later one young fellow said to me, "You are the most intelligent man I have ever met. You know more about Robert E. Howard than anyone I've met." A very questionable gauge of intelligence, I'd say!

He was a very effete young man who lived with his mother by all accounts.

^Howard may or may not have been a virgin, but he was certainly no weakling. If you bother to Google images of him, he had a powerful, muscular physique. His face was rather soft-looking, though. I can find no images of him wearing glasses. And he definitely was an amateur boxer. His mother was in frail health during most of his life, and he did devote considerable energy to caring for her, which seems more commendable than contemptible.

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I'm sorry, but working Wittgenstein into a discussion of how a newbie should go about putting together a Trad wardrobe is just silly.

http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?122032-Advice-to-People-Starting-Out&p=1371276#post1371276

Even a worthless site like ehow.com can tell you how to darn a sock, which of course salvages a threadbare item.  SF waits till there is a gaping hole, sutures it up leaving a misshapen item with a big lump that would be intolerable if one had shoes that fit.  I'm all for frugality and preserving things, but there is a right way to do it.