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White comes so close to accurately referring to Elaine's crime against Lancelot as what it is - rape - only to retreat, and to call it a trick, and to excuse it.

I loathe it. Igraine and Lancelot are victims of identical crimes, and while both victimizers get away with it unremarked upon by the authors of the bulk of Arthuriana, Elaine is often treated as if she is in the *right.* It's sickening.

White's casual, jovial sexism and sporadic reminders of his xenophobic preoccupation with indigenous people is a pair of bright stains on what would otherwise be a wonderful body of work.