tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post3442866064646491976..comments2024-03-29T11:51:21.473+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Personal reservations about the Arthurian legendsBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-5447229730702548732015-12-01T21:53:27.638+00:002015-12-01T21:53:27.638+00:00T.A. Barron wrote an excellent series about the li...T.A. Barron wrote an excellent series about the life of the young merlin. <br />I remember reading those when I was a tween and they brought me to tears. jjbeesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-2288849877888308132015-11-23T07:58:09.850+00:002015-11-23T07:58:09.850+00:00I like how Mark Twain interpolated into Thomas Mal...I like how Mark Twain interpolated into Thomas Malory's version the exploits of his displaced nineteenth-century inventor Hank Morgan in his futile attempt to 'hustle the West'. He was finally foiled by Merlin, who, though portrayed here as a charlatan for most of the tale, turned out to be a real wizard after all.<br /><br />So far no filmmaker has seen fit to mount a faithful adaptation of <i>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court</i>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-77109705439090433732015-11-23T07:08:21.521+00:002015-11-23T07:08:21.521+00:00@SA "Muses tolerate modern computing technolo...@SA "Muses tolerate modern computing technology, but work much more easily with the old and familiar pen-and-paper."<br /><br />Good aphorism - all my primary insights, such as they are! come via pen and paper - and are only elaborated and tidied-up via keyboard. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-63982090545240149862015-11-23T06:08:54.553+00:002015-11-23T06:08:54.553+00:00@MycrofJones
A wiki? Good Lord! That's more o...@MycrofJones<br /><br />A wiki? Good Lord! That's more or less how this Arthurian mess got started in the first place. It won't be put right by committee.<br /><br />No, seek solitude, my man, go and think in new places, and beg the acquaintance of some Muse who is just as annoyed at the hash people have made of King Arthur as you are; and then, when you have had many raucous adventures together in the observation of Reality and the people that inhabit it, and grown far more trusting of one another than Man and Wife could ever be, sit down and wow the world with a new legend that pours from your combined creative effort. (It may help to live in Britain, or it may hinder the process, as distance makes the heart grow fonder, or imagining Logres beneath the accretions of the modern UK proves too weary a task.)<br /><br />Another bit of advice born from difficult personal experience: Muses tolerate modern computing technology, but work much more easily with the old and familiar pen-and-paper.<br /><br />You may not resurrect King Arthur entirely or the Matter of Britain, but the outcome of such a process will likely be worthwhile reading.Seijio Arakawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02615803270163614513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-14241369247755246332015-11-23T01:15:14.216+00:002015-11-23T01:15:14.216+00:00Hear, hear!Hear, hear!Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-76121427998499143582015-11-22T20:53:23.366+00:002015-11-22T20:53:23.366+00:00Sounds like a good start. How about we throw toge...Sounds like a good start. How about we throw together a wiki page and list all the elements that have to go, and perhaps ones that must remain.<br /><br />I admit, I also got super bored when the Lancelot/Guinevere and Grail stuff came up. It just made no sense. Knights going on quests and banging a maid they met in the forest? Sure, that is straight out of the Viking sagas.<br /><br />Merlin seems like a Thomas the Rhymer character.<br /><br />Is the Geoffrey of Monmouth version available somewhere for reading? Would his version make a good foundation?MycroftJoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08342888835176206622noreply@blogger.com