Like many people who’ve been part of The Cimmerian weblog for longer than I, I’m saddened to the point at which it’s hard for me to find words at its closing.  It was a privilege to write and post on the same weblog as Steve Tompkins, Deuce Richardson, Brian Murphy, Al Harron, Barbara Barrett, Morgan Holmes, Miguel Martins and so many others.  I’ve learned a lot from their articles and enjoyed them all hugely; they were welcoming when I came aboard and helpful all the time I was part of the blog.

Robert E. Howard was always a favourite writer of mine and one of the world’s great story-tellers, but I didn’t realise how very little I really knew about him until I started following this website and other REH-oriented ones.  I’ve encountered more cogent thinking and perceptive criticism here than you’d be likely to find, I suspect, in the average university lit lecture room.  And a lot less academic pretentiousness.

I think I’ll take fresh insights away with me, and fresh motivation for my own writing.  That’s quite a bit more than I was able to give, but if people enjoyed my posts, I’m very glad.  And thank you.

And all I’ve done for want of wit, to memory now I cannot recall.
So fill to me the parting glass. Goodnight and joy be with you all.

- Keith Taylor