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Feb. 26th, 2012 05:19 pmSaw malka mention something about king Arthur and his knights a bit ago and it spawned this thought...
I reread a relatively "mature" Arthur (a decently non-bowlderized l'morte d'arthur translation) a while ago - year or two - and my take on it was that the adventures was remarkably childish.
My takeaway was that it would have been better to have gone questing for Better Commerce and Improving The Lands Of The Peasants rather than the ephemera of combat glories.
What glory Arthur? To be remembered as someone who raised a castle with a round table with remarkably adventure-addicted knights? or someone like Catherine the Great, who began encouraging Russian industries in the 1600s, all fire and vigor pushing forward out of the Dark Ages.
Ah well. Perhaps after two World Wars and Vietnam, war is not quite as wonderful, not quite as glorious as it was once.
I reread a relatively "mature" Arthur (a decently non-bowlderized l'morte d'arthur translation) a while ago - year or two - and my take on it was that the adventures was remarkably childish.
My takeaway was that it would have been better to have gone questing for Better Commerce and Improving The Lands Of The Peasants rather than the ephemera of combat glories.
What glory Arthur? To be remembered as someone who raised a castle with a round table with remarkably adventure-addicted knights? or someone like Catherine the Great, who began encouraging Russian industries in the 1600s, all fire and vigor pushing forward out of the Dark Ages.
Ah well. Perhaps after two World Wars and Vietnam, war is not quite as wonderful, not quite as glorious as it was once.
