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Age Comes to Rabelais

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Opening lines

Judas Iscariot, Saul and Cain,Pharaoh and Jezebel —Is it lost away, the blind black strainThat stabbed me cold with a blinding pain,

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Finished / professionalAge Comes to Rabelais
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Characters in this Work

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CainBiblical figure invoked in Howard's Cain-and-Abel comparison1 textual stateJezebelbiblical queen invoked among the damned in “The Road to Hell”; distinct from fictional Jezebel #13601 textual stateJudas Iscariotbiblical figure invoked in dialogue1 textual stateSaulBiblical king discussed by Howard in direct historical prose1 textual state

Publication appearances

Echoes from an Iron HarpDonald M. Grant1972↗The Collected Poetry of Robert E. HowardREH Foundation PressJanuary 2009↗The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard Volume OneREH Foundation PressOctober 2022↗