{Idylls of the King}[11th May 1983]

[Redbook2:272][19830511:1045]{Idylls of the King}[11^th May 1983]

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Re-reading 19821010*: more recently I read Tennyson's 'Idylls of the King' right through for the first time, and was struck by the way that Carbonek could (and perhaps will) be fitted into the description of [the] Castle [...] and its immediate surroundings: the Sea Gate would be the great doorway into the [central mountain], opened wide. I have, of course, read stories derived from Tennyson/Malory, as a child.

There is also a delightful description of what would now be classified as a UFO – although Bors had no doubt as to what it was, lying in the 'cell of great, piled stones', through a miraculous gap in which: ' “And then to me, to me,'

Said good Sir Bors, 'beyond all hopes of mine,

Who scarce had prayed or asked it for myself –

Across the seven clear stars – O grace to me –

In colour like the fingers of a hand

Before a burning taper, the sweet Grail

Glided and past, and close upon it pealed

A sharp quick thunder.” '

Great fun!

*[Beginning at [Redbook2:252-256][19821010:1330]{The Magic Mountain}[10^th October 1982]]

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