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Bud Smith
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All this Tristram stuff is simultaneously great and just a way to teach people how to read Lancelot and Guinevere when we get there soon, methinks
— Oct 09, 2024 06:59AM
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Bud Smith
is on page 125 of 576
Malory is at once writing the first novel written in English and writing the first ‘historical’ novel in English; most of the material comes from ancient oral stories and later epic poems and epic adventures written in welsh and written in French (and lots of those stories coming from who knows, Viking and Germanic sources etc). Malory is just the collector, but puts it in the most compelling ORDER and lucky us
— Oct 04, 2024 06:12AM
Bud Smith
is on page 125 of 576
First read the Lancelot adventures (page 90-120) and saw the Bresson movie Lancelot du Lac (amazing btw) and got so hooked that all my other reading got set aside till I finish this Malory. And boy does it fucking RULE. Easy reading, flying through it. Re-started at the beginning (birth of Arthur) and now past the Lancelot I read the other day. The ‘first novel’ ever written in English, damn it’s great
— Oct 04, 2024 06:08AM
