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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
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the Festival Theatre. "Mr. Mauleverer was taking the occupier, an undergraduate named Weans, to the Festival Theatre. He was also taking Mr. Beedon, the history don whose rooms were on A staircase."
Copper Street. Mr. Mauleverer sent Weans to get Mr. Beedon, but Weans got no answer from Beedon. So Weans went back down to tell Mauleverer, and asked him if he should go to Copper Street and yell at Beedon from there.
a gramophone started playing. "In the silence which followed, a gramophone began to play inside the room."
In much of Part 1, Inspector Buller is trying to figure out how the gramophone started playing.
6. First Weans, then Mauleverer, the Master of the college, the Chaplain, the porter, and finally Miss Edgeworth.
an automatic with silencer. "Well, sir, I wouldn't rush to any conclusions, but I see it this way. The wounds were inflicted with the same weapon: the automatic with silencer on the table there, which was found in this man Beedon's hand."
cocaine. "Actually," said the sugeon, "I knew the old man took cocaine. But how did you?"
"His eyes struck me as curious, so I got him to take his spectacles off and had a good look at him. The pupils were contracted to pinpoints."
a poet. "'It comes to this,' said the Inspector, 'you can suspect anybody once you entertain suspicion. It's an extraordinary thing how remote human beings are from one another. We go here and there like cats, meeting, fraternising, diverging. Sometimes we have alibis and sometimes not. But always, inside, everybody is incalculable and secret, always locked up and impenetrably alone. the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.'
'You ought to have been a poet.' said the doctor."
he was Irish. "He was an Irishman and we had never got on with each other."
the porter, Rudd. "Rudd hasn't been in all night. His wife didn't let me know before because apparently he's done the same thing once or twice already. She seems to think he has a girl in Swavesey. But this morning one of the gardeners found a lot of blood on some clothes which he leaves in the gardening shed on the Backs and she got frightened."
four. They are titled "The Sword in the Stone", "The Queen of Air and Darkness", "The Ill-made Knight", and "The Candle in the Wind". A fifth book, "The Book of Merlin", was excluded at the time of the original publication.
"The Sword in the Stone" was made into an animated version by Disney. The musical "Camelot" is based on the high points of "The Ill-made Knight" and "The Candle in the Wind".
Wart. White says Wart was his nickname because it rhymed somewhat with Art, which was short for his name. He is not called Arthur until the very end of "The Sword in the Stone." Even Merlin calls him Arthur after he becomes king.
All of these (He lived his life from older to younger, He was a magician, He owned an owl that could speak English). Merlin is Arthur's kindly and slightly befuddled teacher. While able to do magic, he is hardly a dark or ominous figure. His only goal is to give Arthur the knowledge he will need to rule England as a great king. He leaves Arthur's life when he is bewitched by the spirit Nemue.
Turning him into various animals. Among the animals into which the Wart is turned, as part of his education, are a falcon, a fish, a hedgehog, and a snow goose. From these lessons he learns about use of power, both physical and political, and use of force.
| "The Ill Made Knight" revolves around the marriage of Arthur and Guenevere, whom he calls Jenny, and the coming of Lancelot to Camelot. The tragic and classic love triangle ensues. How does White describe Lancelot's appearance? | "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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He was ugly as an African ape. White says "He was ugly as an African ape." Lancelot sees his appearance as appropriate because while everyone else sees him as a man of virtue and purity, and thinks of him as the greatest knight in the world, he knows in his heart he has betrayed his best friend by sleeping with his wife. He feels his ugly appearance reflects his hidden sin and the lies that live in his heart.
| At the end of "The Ill made Knight", Lancelot finds redemption by being allowed by God to perform a miracle. When this happens, White quotes Mallory's account by saying "Lancelot wept as a child that had been beaten." What was the miracle that Lance was allowed to perform? | "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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Healed a badly wounded knight. This is a very moving episode in the life of Lancelot; it never fails to give me goosebumps when I read it. Lancelot knows he has betrayed his best friend, committed adultery, murdered, and failed God. He begs not to be humiliated by failing to heal the knight before the court and Table. His humiliation comes from God showing Lancelot that He (God) has control at all times, not man. White writes that Lancelot knew "the miracle was that he had been allowed to do a miracle."
| In the quest for the Holy Grail (not to be confused with the Monty Python version), Lancelot is allowed to see the grail but not touch it. Only three knights are allowed to attain the Holy Grail. They are Percival, Bedivere, and Lancelot's son. What is the name of Lancelot's son? | "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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Galahad. Galahad was born to Elaine after she duped Lancelot into thinking he was sleeping with Guenevere (and also giving up his virginity). Galahad becomes the best knight in the world, besting even his father, by being pure of heart and holy.
Mordred. Mordred was born to Morguase, as a result of her mystical seduction of Arthur. Arthur is both his father and his uncle. Mordred comes to Camelot with the goal of causing it to collapse. Arthur allows it to happen out of his love of the law. He offers Mordred love and acceptance. Mordred wants nothing more than power and chaos. When he accuses Guenevere of adultery and Lancelot of treason, a war results between Lancelot and Arthur, thus ending the glorious dream of Camelot.
| T. H. White based this epic novel on several sources, but he relies heavily on Thomas Mallory's 15th century telling of the legends of King Arthur. What is Mallory's classic called? | "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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Le Morte D'Arthur. White explains that Mallory calls his very long book "The Death of Arthur" because death and downfall is the only result that can come from his having slept with his half-sister. Mallory wrote his account of Arthur while in prison for rape.
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