Re: Excalibur

On Tue, 19 May 2009 22:37:55 -0400, erimess wrote:

You perhaps like Michelle Pfeiffer?

And how! I wish she'd do more movies these days...

Well, give it has a French title, and given that it reads so weird, I
just assumed it was a translation. Either way, it's certainly not
easy to understand. I'm not particularly into literary stuff, so I
really wouldn't know the difference. (I'm an accountant. What do you
expect?)

Then we'll call it, um, a direct transcription. How's that?

I think he was inspired to name it that from some of the earlier French
stories he used when writing it. He also used English source material.

The whole bit is quite a large bit of literature, but in schools they
mostly just study the end bit with Modred and Arthur's wounding, etc.
Somewhere around here I have a very old leather bound volume of the entire
work. I think I read it on my own when I was a high school sophomore.
That thing was a monster to lug around.

Jeez, that's worse than the one in the library. And he doesn't know
how to spell Igraine. :-)

Migraine!

I should check a bookstore. It wouldn't be the first time I stood
around reading a chapter to see how I like something. Did that last
night in the grocery store as a matter of fact. They had some cheaply
published books on sell for even more dirt cheap and I couldn't pass
that up. So I stood there reading the first few pages of nearly all
of them. :-)

"on sell for even more dirt cheap..." Hmmm, no wonder you're having
trouble with middle English. :) Just kidding.

You'd probably like the Half Price Books & Music at South Town Center just
a bit east of the mall. I bet they have a bunch of different versions of
Mallory and T.H. White in there as well as cheap DVDs.
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