{The Tarot Pack (and Quest Romances) [continued]}[29th March 1987]

[Redbook3:64-65][19870329:1210o]{The Tarot Pack (and Quest Romances) [continued]}[29^th March 1987]

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[continued]

Knights* are looking inwards, but passing through and subject to the outer world. As in many Quest romances, the Knights generally wear the favours of the Queens, whom they seek to please – despite the fact that the Queens generally have Kings; or in other, more proper-seeming versions, the Knight must rescue a Princess, whose father is a King. The Knight moves, encountering and defeating static (or contrary?) knights, Lions, Giants, and Castles, Dragons and even sometimes Witches, and Tyrants: should he fail to overcome these various forms of Knavery, he will fail in his quest, which is to satisfy or release the (static) Queen and follow her and her guidance on the next stage**. (Perhaps the problem for Lancelot was that having satisfied or released Queen Guinevere he imposed his will upon her, one way or another, instead of following her? – leading to the downfall of his King and the triumph of the Knave.)

It is worth mentioning that it is possible to get stuck at any point.

*[See last previous entry.]

**(i.e. the Inner Circle)

[cf. [Redbook3:35-36][19870326:1543p]{Quest Romances}[26^th March 1987]]

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