With gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth.

"...Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing..."

January 22 is Robert E. Howard's birthday. I'll save my thoughts about him and his works for now, and just point to this, one of my favorite weird tales. Hopefully, one I will be coming back to in detail later.