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Patri J. Pugliese '72, co-founder of the Boston chapter of the SCA, said Saturday that society members attempt only "selective re-creation" of medieval times. The Boston chapter meets once or twice a month to enjoy the "finer aspects" of medieval life, including Arthurian revels and banquets, he said...
...even a primitive reaper two millenniums before Cyrus McCormick. They cut roads through the forests, sometimes paved them with timber and stone and rumbled over them in carriages that had wheels rimmed with iron. Above all, the Celts were superb storytellers who bequeathed a literary legacy ranging from the Arthurian legend to Tristram and Isolde...
Arthur Rex features hard-boiled knights in a pseudo-Arthurian landscape, and the clash of styles has the discordant ring of crossed lances at a joust. His heroes talk obsessively of "paps" and "mammets" (not, as Berger supposes, a variant of mammaries, but a medieval reference to Muhammad). The labored effort to reproduce Malory's diction is a disaster. Horses are "sore thirsty," kings are "some vexed," lusty knights "swyve" damsels, addressed elsewhere as "chicks." Launcelot is said to have "filled a need for the queen," a disheartening summation of one of the world's most fabled love...
What infuriates me, as a daughter of Britain and a student of Arthurian legend, is to read again in White about the audacity of the Kennedys in presenting that unspectacular Administration as "Camelot." It is an insult to those of us with sense enough to recognize a Madison Avenue promotion when we see one, and it is quite galling to see how the American press promotes this myth. Let the Kennedys and their "historians" fall back on the Blarney Stone, where they belong...
...lauding her sleek, faithful, potent Excalibur, which to anyone not hopelessly besotted with Arthurian lore means an automobile. Not just any automobile, but one of the classiest, flashiest chariots to make the scene since the fall of Rome...