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Arthur, King of Time and Space

3/13/07

The bit about Lancelot's seat is a swipe from T.H. White, who discusses individuality in horsemanship in the context of jousting and tournament melees. White says when Lancelot was in a joust in disguise he'd purposely ride poorly, showing sun at his seat, until just before impact when he'd bear down properly; and the audience - and, most likely, the unfortunate opponent - would go, "Ah, Lancelot!" at the last moment. One of my earliest memories is of my father or someone from his family saying of Jack Benny's violin playing, "You have to be good to be that bad."

Speaking of White, I don't think I'm running through Malory's adventures for Lancelot quickly enough to get through them all in the time I've alotted. I may be obliged to confine myself to only the highlights White used. Well, those are the ones I know best anyway, but that's not what I meant to do. Still it's also true that the Lionel-Morgan-Bagdemagus-Turquine sequence is the most convoluted of the lot; the rest may go quicker.

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Arthuriana sources I use or recommend:
Arthurian Legend
Arthuriana - the Journal of Arthurian Studies; the website of the quarterly journal of the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society.
The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester.
Camelot In Four Colors: A Survey of the Arthurian Legend in Comics
Mystical-WWW - The Arthurian A2Z knowledge Bank which has encyclopedically-arranged entries on the characters of the Arthurian legends.
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1 and Volume 2.

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