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What do I need to read in order to understand The Once and Future Kang? Anonymous Fri Nov 29 07:12:23 2019 No.14257619 [Reply] [Original]

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 29 07:43:08 2019 No.14257688 >>14257619 Le Morte d'Arthur

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 29 11:37:13 2019 No.14258399 >>14257688 I don't know French

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 29 11:40:26 2019 No.14258408 >>14257619 Don't read it. Especially the edition your cover is from - the quality is terrible and the price is too high. Pick medieval renditions of the legend instead - as >>14257688 said, my personal favorite is Merlin and the Grail tho.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 29 12:23:30 2019 No.14258594 >>14258399 It's in Middle English you dinlow, and there are plenty of editions with modernised texts for brainlets.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 29 12:27:42 2019 No.14258612 >>14257619 >what do I need to read to understand a modernized version of Arthurian myth made accessible for westerners and children Just read it you dipshit, it's good

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 29 14:58:55 2019 No.14259387 >>14257688 This is all you need, really, it's the basis of T.H. White's retelling, there are lots of allusions you'd miss without reading it first. But Once And Future King can easily be enjoyed by itself.