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Arthur, King of Time and Space

1/6/06

I don't know whether it bothers anyone that I'm not consistent with the dialog in the fairy tale arc in terms of chronism. For instance, in today's cartoon Merlin's lines are, "That's meet [faux-medieval for appropriate or just]," and, "Yup"; and Blaise's line is the most pervasive Homer Simpsonism on the internet. Well, the AKOTAS FAQ warns you that the fairy tale arc is "laced with anachronism". And unapologetically so. Arthurian stories have embraced anachronism at least ever since Arthur's knights started being portrayed as knights in armor when, if there was a historic basis for Arthur, he lived in the fifth century.

My own language usage is such a mixed bag that, years ago when I wrote a paper on Rhapsody in Blue for a music appreciation class, because there was such a contrast of formal and informal phraseology the professor wondered to me whether I was using quotes but failing to put quotation marks and citations on them. (I described that rest in the middle of the second piano solo in the Bernstein recording as lasting "exactly a bar and a deep breath".) (Well, it does.) You probably can get what I mean from reading AKOTAS dialog. I'm not any good at giving my characters "voices" that are different from mine, let alone from each others'. I try to remember to give fairy tale- and space- Lancelot and his family syntax as if they were speaking with a French accent but I don't always.

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Arthuriana sources I use or recommend:
Arthurian Legend
Arthuriana - the Journal of Arthurian Studies; the website of the quarterly journal of the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society.
The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester.
Camelot In Four Colors: A Survey of the Arthurian Legend in Comics
Mystical-WWW - The Arthurian A2Z knowledge Bank which has encyclopedically-arranged entries on the characters of the Arthurian legends.
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1 and Volume 2.

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