Right? Right!

Conan The Rebel, IX.

Conan and his two companions meet a band of black men whose leader, Sakumbe, turns out to be a friend of Belit so the three wanderers now have new allies. When Conan suggests that the two groups join forces, Sakumbe replies:

"'...why not go take a look? That is why we puffed and groaned over those nastily steep mountains, right? Right.'" (p. 145)

That turn of phrase rang a bell. Where have we heard it before?

"'Well, your tour'll soon be up,' Ammon said. 'Precious little to show for it, right? Right.'"

-Poul Anderson, A Circus Of Hells IN Anderson, Young Flandry (Riverdale, NY, January 2010), pp. 193-365 AT CHAPTER TWO, p. 207.

Leon Ammon says it a few times, then Dominic Flandry, with whom Ammon converses, mimics it:

"'I know you can find a capable and at the same time amiable female. Right? Right.'" (pp. 211-212)

It is marginally amusing when a single character requests agreement, then immediately issues that agreement without awaiting a response from the other party. Flandry soon learns how to converse with, then to outmaneuver, the gangster, Ammon. And maybe no one else notices this faint echo between two periods in two timelines.

I can believe that Poul Anderson's Conan The Rebel is unlike any other Conan novel. Six chapters remain to be reread.