!bookworms !classics have you guys ever read them? What are your takes?
I mean all the corpus ranging from Geoffrey of Monmouth fanfic history about WE WUZ TROJANZ N SHEET to "Le Mort D'Arthur" and most recently "The One and Future King"
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the frick does this post have to do with cucks
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Guinevere cucks King Arthur with Sir Lancelot
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so who's Morgana again
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Morgan le Fay is a sorceress and Arthur's sister or half-sister but depends on the tale.
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Also Arthur's mother is married to a man who isn't Arthur's father King Uther Pendragon
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You mean she got jousted intimately?
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Most epics are centered around cuckery
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what are the other ones
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The Iliad (Paris and Helen), Nibelunglied (Brunhild and Siegfried), the poetic Eddas also have stories on Frigg cucking Odin (though he cucks her more) and Zeus is a serial male feminist making Hera the most cucked godess in the Olympus, this plays a huge role in Hercules's story.
Is a common theme in more modern literature as well (Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, Othello).
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I actually just bought an anthology of Arthurian stories for my children's book library
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I've been meaning to read Canterbury tales my entire adult life
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What are you waiting for?
Is not Arthurian but Middle English sounds charming.
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I honestly don't know, I'll get to it right after I'm done reading don quixote and shakespeare (never)
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I read about Arthurian Cycles on Wikipedia
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Thoughts on Guinevere? Trad or whore?
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Was like 10 years ago. She's a woman so she's probably a gold digging whore.
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Oh but I rewatched Disney's The Sword in the Stone like 2 years ago, it's so good
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Once and Future King is one of my favorite books ever
Haven't read any of the really ancient ones
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I like the part where King Arthur killed all the Romans and Egyptians
Sorry bro I'm about to go to bed lol
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I really liked The Once and Future King. Weird book, but I'm glad I read it. The first half is mostly a silly pisstake for the 1940's equivalent of "modern audiences" while the second is kind of hard to categorize. I'll repost my last comment on it since it was pretty late in a weekly book thread
I'd recommend it, but keep in mind that it assumes a certain baseline familiarity with the Arthurian legends that your average 2024 burger probably doesn't have.
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Lmao, do you mind elaborating on that one?
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Lots of deliberate anachronism, poking fun at various characters from the mythos, slapstick humor, etc. Pellinore going after the Questing Beast is borderline Looney Tunes stuff, there's even a part where a couple guys dress up as a similar beast and then it falls in love with them. Merlyn experiences life backwards (he was born in the future and clearly remembers modern events). Duels between heavily armored knights are farcical because they can't hurt each other or see what they're doing. It's criticized as a social game nobles play while actual soldiers are stuck killing and dying.
Merlyn trains Arthur by transforming him into a series of animals so he can explore what kinds of social structures they have. The palace falcons are hierarchical and conservative, and one starts ranting about "BIPOCs and Bolsheviks" or something to that effect. Ants' messages are phrased like military radio jargon.
Anachronism continues into the second half of the book (a lot of the discussion of governing systems makes clear references to 20th century concerns) but it stops being used for comedy.
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Lmao, that's just Monty Pythonesque. It fits the legends though. The medieval Arthurian romances themselves were filled with anachronisms. The stories are set in 5th century Britain but there are castles and fully armored knights like in the late Middle Ages, even knighthood didn't exist in the 5th century lol, at best there was some imitation of Roman equites.
I have to check those eventually.
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White actually deliberately changes the setting to like 1300, and then still has anachronisms within that. So there's probably some meta humor there about the original stories
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I had to read most of them in collage and I can say that while they are masterclasses in prose, they are boring and predictable stories. Think Tolkien but with much worse lore and twice as longwinded to tell the same story, which is so apparent that a child could guess what's gonna happen.
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Hey, it was new back then
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Fate: stay/night
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