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[masquedbunny]

My experience with Arthurian legend is pretty incomplete, or this is the conclusion that I've come to as I begin the fourth volume of The Once and Future King.

My Chaucer professor referred frequently to Le Morte d'Arthur (Malory), and T. H. White frequently references the work to say that more complete accounts of what I'm reading are available

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[johnny9fingers]

Long time no hear...

Depending on which edition you read of White, Merlyn is either a Wykehamist or an Etonian. White made the changes deliberately too. Almost as if he were presenting alternate universe versions of the same story. He retconned his own life a few times too IIRC. :)

Hope things are well and fortune favours you.

[masquedbunny]

Hello! I'm doing pretty well; I mean, in the grand scheme, things are definitely weird (putting it lightly) here politically, but I am personally all right. And you? How is life across the pond?

It's funny about White's alternate versions. I didn't intend to when I began, but I did end up doing a side-by-side comparison of two different editions of The Sword in the Stone, which I started reading on Project Gutenberg Canada. When I realized that one of the chapters was obviously cut off (transcription mistake is my guess), I went looking for another copy on archive.org (too impatient to wait on the Boston library system) and found a scanned paperback from 1963. I was only looking for the missing half of the chapter, but then so much of it was different that I kept switching between the two, just out of curiosity.

[johnny9fingers]

Well I have two kids and a soon-to-be ex-wife with whom I appear to get on, which is a blessing. I'm grey of hair and as crotchety as ever