h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I think it was Raymond Chandler who once said that detective novels were the purest kind of literature, because in the end the bad always met their just deserts. I would like to make the same claim for Sword&Sorcery. At the beginning the good suffer terribly and decoratively, at the end the bad meet their just deserts in a way that is both awful and satisfying, usually by falling from a high place or getting eaten by the slimy monsters they themselves conjured up from the abyss, where everything dark and ugly is conveniently placed, instead of lying about randomely all over the dimension, as it does in ours.
Sword & Sorcery is about good and evil, interpunctuated by lots of sword clash, drenched in gore and gold, and overshadowed by larger than life heroes setting the place by the ears in a way that never fails to leave me with my spirits strangely uplifted.

I've read just about everything Raymond Chandler ever wrote, in fact I always think of him as a writer full-stop. Sword & Sorcery, I'm afraid you've got me there buster .

Somebody must have fed you cosh poison my man, for we been having that line last year ... I'm just reorganising this page of mine, is all. You think we should engage in exactly the same conversation as before?

Deja vu?

no no, identical replica comes nearer. You see, this bit was in my journal before, but i wanted to change a word, and as the journal can't be edited, i had to make it a new entry, and it got bumped up all mthe way through last year, see?