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"This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?" And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins." --
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magic
love
wisdom
merlin
king-arthur
knights
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John Steinbeck |
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afd3b47
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Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross.
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immortality
hope
england
king-arthur
matter-of-britain
resurrection
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Thomas Malory |
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56b892a
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"Oh, what a lovely owl!" Cried the Wart. But when he went up to it and held out his hand, the owl grew half as tall again, stood up as stiff as a poker, closed its eyes so that there was only the smallest slit to peep through - as you are in the habit of doing when told to shut your eyes at hide-and-seek - and said in a doubtful voice "There is no owl." Then it shut its eyes entirely and looked the other way. "It is only a boy," said Merlyn. "There is no boy," said the owl hopefully, without turning round."
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humor
owls
merlyn
sassy
king-arthur
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T.H. White |
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3c09521
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Thinking and planning is one side of life; doing is another. A man cannot be doing all the time.
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fantasy
crystal-cave
mary-stewart
merlin
tactics
king-arthur
planning
strategy
legend
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Mary Stewart |
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e934e68
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We have The Idylls of the King in English class this term. I like some things in them, but I detest Tennyson's Arthur. If I had been Guinevere I'd have boxed his ears - but I wouldn't have been unfaithful to him for Lancelot, who was just as odious in a different way. As for Geraint, if I had been Enid I'd have bitten him. These 'patient Griseldas' deserve all they get.
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arthurian-legend
guinevere
lancelot
tennyson
king-arthur
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L.M. Montgomery |
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f898aed
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. . . and it came out that this King Arthur and his knights had done nothing of real note but to kill innocent dragons all around Britain: almost certainly a pack of lies, as Forthing admitted they had not possessed even any guns at the time, and unpleasant lies at that.
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temeraire
king-arthur
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Naomi Novik |
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6a7e3ee
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It is the kind of stoicism which had been seen as characteristic of Anglo-Saxon poetry, perhaps nowhere better expressed than in 'The Battle of Maldon' where the most famous Saxon or English cry has been rendered - 'Courage must be the firmer, heart the bolder, spirit must be the greater, as our strength grows less'. That combination of bravery and fatalism, endurance and understatement, is the defining mood of Arhurian legend.
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england
king-arthur
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Peter Ackroyd |
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But a voice said within her, Now it is too late. They found her at high noon, just as the sun came out after the storm, floating among the reeds of the Lake. Her long hair was spread out on the surface like water reeds, and Morgaine, stunned with grief, could not find it in her heart to regret that Kevin had not gone alone into the shadowed land beyond death.
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page-802
the-mists-of-avalon
king-arthur
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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eaeb2b4
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That night she dreamed about the King again. She stood in a riverside meadow between greenwood and castle. Overhead the sun shone gilt in a sky like powdered lapis and struck golden sparks from the King's blood-red dragon banner.
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fantasy
pendragon-s-heir
king-arthur
mythology
legend
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Suzannah Rowntree |