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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JPL" data-source="post: 3479352" data-attributes="member: 1964">I see your point, but there's this scene from "The Hills of the Dead" that gets me every time:"Mighty men, we be!" declared N'Longa with deep approval. "Vampire city be silent now, sure 'nough! No walking dead man live along these hills.""I do not understand," said Kane, resting chin on hand. "Tell me,bN'Longa, how have you done things? How talked you with me in my dreams; how came you into the body of Kran; and how summoned you the vultures?""My blood-brother," said N'Longa, discarding his pride in his pidgin English, to drop into the river language understood by Kane, "I am so old that you would call me a liar if I told you my age. All my life I have worked magic, sitting first at the feet of mighty ju-ju men ofthe south and the east; then I was a slave to the Buckra and learned more. My brother, shall I span all these years in a moment and make you understand with a word, what has taken me so long to learn? I could not even make you understand how these vampires have kept their bodies from decay by drinking the lives of men. * * * *Kane listened unspeaking, seeing for the first time in N'Longa's glittering eyes something stronger and deeper than the avid gleam of the worker in black magic. To Kane it seemed almost as if he looked into the far-seeing and mystic eyes of a prophet of old. * * * *"These things I know and am a part of, but how shall I tell you of them? Blood-brother, you are a mighty warrior, but in the ways of magic you are as a little child lost. And what has taken me long dark years to know, I may not divulge to you so you would understand. Myfriend, you think only of bad spirits, but were my magic always bad, should I not take this fine young body in place of my old wrinkled one and keep it? But Kran shall have his body back safely." - - - - - -A little off-topic....What fascinates me about Kane is that while he thinks of himself as this champion of God (as understood by a 16th century Puritan), but he's actually just plain crazy --- driven to walk the earth and fight and kill and keep moving.  He's driven by these forces he himself doesn't understand.</blockquote>

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