Why did he do it?
>>24772380because he was a fucking retard.
>>24772380His mama died.
He was a based autist.
Because the feast was over and the lamps expired.
why didn't he do it?
>>24772380Life affoomers usually get short end of the stick i.e Nietzsche. While life deniers like >>24772472 and Schopenhauer just live their lives fine. Really makes you think.
the sere, the yellow leaf... you wouldn't get it... this world is insufficient
>>24772380Too much of a dreamer, too enamoured with his passions to live in the modern world. His mother's death was just the last straw.
>>24772380DepressionSuicide is such a tragic thing
>>24772380It depresses me to think of what he could have become with a full lifetime to perfect his craft. America doesn’t have its own Tolkien because ours shot himself at 30 years old.
>>24773985>Howard>another Tolkien
>>24773988Howard was not (and was never going to be) the philological master that Tolkein was, and had a different outlook, but he shared the same fascination with older cultures and myths that Tolkien did; and his world, like Tolkien's, was an elder, mythologised version of our Earth. As is, Conan is arguably the most influential (and most copied) fantasy work outside of Tolkien anyway, and had Howard lived and continued to write would probably be considered as an equal of Tolkien by popular academia today.
>>24772380He was level 2 autistic and simply had nowhere else to go once his mother died. I am afraid of ending up like him.
>>24774000who are examples of beyond level 2?
>>24774003Level 3 is full on not verbal. Level 2 is like this guy or Henry Cavendish
>>24772431>>24773947>>24773971>>24774000would having sex unironically saved him?
>>24772380You'd get it if your mother is worth a damn.>>24773988Tolkien dick riding retard. Do you get a hard on when old british men speak unintelligible?
>>24774017If he could have sex, he wouldn't need saving.
>>24772380He didn't have sex.>>24772472He did have sex (somehow).It ain't rocket science.
>>24774000Pic rel
>>24774042this. /thread
>>24773998Another similarity between Howard and Tolkien that always surprises me is that they both liked Chesterton. For Tolkien that seems obvious, but for Howard it seems really odd to see excerpts from Ballad of the White Horse appear in the chapter bumps of a Solomon Kane story. Howard was only 28 when he died; a mature Howard really might have been a lot more like Tolkien and Lewis than anyone could guess.
>>24773985Indeed my friend>>24773988The nature of their writting was similar but unique in their own way. Don't be so arrogant.
>>24772380He was by inclination and tendency a vitalist and an optimist. But weird fiction was a nihilistic and pessimistic movement, and his association with it left him mentally trapped with depressing ideas that appalled his nature. Add the usual existential crisis that hits men in their late 20s, add the catalyst of his mother's death, and that contradiction between spirit and mind ultimately killed him.
