It turns out that in order to defeat the Dark Lord, who has taken up residence in the Impregnable Fortress and is hatching an insidious plan to usurp power in the Twenty Kingdoms, it is not at all necessary to be a Funk Barbarian, the local equivalent of Conan. To do this, all you need to do is thoroughly study Robert S. Taylor’s “Guide to Practical Heroism.” The main thing is not to confuse this practical guide with some other reference book by the same author - “A Practical Guide to Fly Fishing,” for example, or “A Guide to Slaying Dragons.”