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T.H. White, The Once and Future King (1958)

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“Lancelot was not romantic and debonair... this rather sullen and unsatisfactory child, with the ugly face, who did not disclose to anybody that he was living on dreams and prayers… what store of ferocity he had against himself, that could set him to break his own body so young. They might have wondered why he was so strange.”

- T.H. White, The Ill-Made Knight

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Ughhh some Pellinore sketches + young Pellinore

I'm back to using references my art doesn't look miserable anymore yessss

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Last night, I finished reading The Once and Future King by T. H. White. The single-most compelling take on Arthuriana I've ever experienced, but it also contains enthusiastic authorial defenses of feudalism and several passages on the inherent miasma at the core of the Gaelic mind. 8/10.

I really like how this book goes from 'charming story about Arthur turning into animals and learning things 😄 ' to 'the single most depressing, miserable, hopeless slog you'll ever experience.' Mirrors Arthur's actual life well.

I took a thousand notes on incredible lines and passages from this, but I'll spare you posting them all - White does a great job with the prose in the book, and he presents this really thoughtful lens on Arthuriana that doesn't necessarily reframe my opinion on it, but kind of focuses it and makes me understand why the stuff I was ambivalent on actually works. This is the first time I've ever actually been compelled by the Lancelot/Guenever/Arthur relationship rather than frustrated by it.

If the antiquarian politics of the book weren't insane, and if it didn't have a few passages I considered sluggish - the stuff with the Orkney boys was pretty mixed for me, some exceptional stuff, some meh stuff - it'd be a 9 or a 9.5.

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love that in every version arthur’s adherence to the law and trying to do what is Right is what brings him down. whether that’s having to execute guinevere or having to execute cara. bbc merlin i fear you Got it. too well maybe