Knight Life, eh

"Slowly, Elvis stood up and started to clap. Buddy joined him. And then someone who wasn't part of Arthur's group, and then another, and then within seconds, the entire studio was filled with the thunderous sound of applause." (263)


I honestly really liked this entire reading until it came to this point. If i were there, and the candidate was saying these things, my reaction would be "okay, this guy is crazy", but I'm supposed to assume that everyone here is believing this? Idk it took me out of the reading a little bit. After thinking about it though, this moment kind of brought me back to the old readings. When Arthur would give a speech before a battle and everyone would join with him in cheers and stuff, so when I thought about it like that, I really actually came to enjoy this ending. I guess my question is, was there anything in this reading that at first you didn't enjoy, but you came to appreciate considering the context of the older texts?

harp strings and swords

One quote that caught my eye was on page 147, when Morgaine is describing Lancelot's physical appearance. She says, "...his slender hands, exquisitely shaped, fashioned for harp strings or weapon, but calloused just a little across palm and the insides of the fingers, more on the right than the left." What caught my eye in this line, other than the fact that it told us Lancelot is right handed, was the dichotomy between "harp strings" and "weapon." Harps are typically seen as a gentle, angelic instrument whereas weapons are, so to speak, instruments of death, and seen as anything but gentle. It's clear that Lancelot is caught between two worlds here, and he is the one bringing them together simply by existing. Perhaps this use of the words "harp strings and weapon" was to further elaborate on this point, of two opposite things colliding and coming together through one person.