The guest thought long and hard and then said, with deliberation: 'Hot water, good dentishtry and shoft lavatory paper. 'I said: what is it that a man may call the greatest things in life?' (When asked What is best in life) To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation. The guest paused in the middle of another unsuccessful attempt to light up. Then the chieftain turned respectfully to his guest, a small figure carefully warming his chilblains by the fire, and said: 'But our guest, whose name is legend, must tell us truly: what is it that a man may call the greatest things in life?' There was a general murmur of whiskery approval at this outrageous display. The chieftain nodded, and said: 'Surely it is the sight of your enemy slain, the humiliation of his tribe and the lamentation of his women.'
The man on his left said: 'The cry of the white eagle in the heights, the fall of snow in the forest, a true arrow in your bow.' The man on his right thoughtfully drank his cocktail of mare's milk and snowcat blood, and spoke thus: 'The crisp horizon of the steppe, the wind in your hair, a fresh horse under you.' The barbarian chieftain said: 'What then are the greatest things that a man may find in life?' This is the sort of thing you're supposed to say to maintain steppe-cred in barbarian circles. The nomads of the Hub regions usually migrated Rimwards for the winter, and these were part of a tribe who had pitched their felt tents in the sweltering heatwave of a mere -3 degrees and were going around with peeling noses and complaining about heatstroke. Contemplate this on the Tree of Woe.So great was the reputation of this person that a group of nomadic barbarian horsemen had respectfully invited him to join them as they sat around a horseturd fire. Thulsa Doom: THAT is strength, boy! THAT is power! The strength and power of flesh! What is steel, compared to the hand that wields it? Look at the strength in your body, the desire in your heart, I gave you this! Such a waste. Steel isn't strong boy, flesh is stronger! Look around you.
This is a variation of a quote attributed to Genghis. of steel? Thulsa Doom: Yes! You know what it is, don't you, boy? Shall I tell you? It's the least I can do. To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women. There was a time, boy, when I searched for steel, when steel meant more to me than gold or jewels. Conan: You killed my mother! You killed my father, you killed my people! You took my father's sword! Thulsa Doom: Ah. Thorgrim is beside himself with grief! He raised that snake from the time it was born. View Quote Thulsa Doom: You broke into my house, stole my property, murdered my servants, and my PETS! And that is what grieves me the most! You killed my snake.
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