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Tintagel Castle
in case you thought I was joking about the pop-up book. highlights include Lancelot crying because he can’t achieve the grail, the line “As pure as Galahad was, there was another nearby who was perfectly wicked” (nearby = in the same bed, imo), oh, and, on the last page, PULLING THE TAB TO MAKE MORDRED’S SWORD PIERCE ARTHUR’S SIDE WHAT KIND OF SICK FUCKS THOUGHT THIS WAS APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN
So I was at a thrift store Bc I needed pants and I saw /this/, & I thought it was something a lot of you would appreciate
The best of the best!
Suddenly I’m not half the man I used to be.
There’s a shadow hanging over me.
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.About 3 years ago I made a porcelain music box case, for a movement that played “Yesterday” by the Beatles. I’ve always had a bit of a fixation on Mordred from the old King Arthur legends, so I chose to make the scene of his death because the song is so sad and something made me think of him.
The porcelain gives the music box an amazing resonance. No glazes, all hand made and fired at cone 9.
This is amazing! Do you have a shop?
Today my tome for @bibliophilicwitch tomes and tea is an old favourite rather than a new book – Rosalind Kerven’s retellings of some of the Arthurian Legends. The tea, as is usual with me, is coffee (de-caf as it’s evening here).
I don’t remember the first time my Gran told me about King Arthur, I can’t remember a time when I didn’t know about him, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table. The legends have been a lifelong obsession and I own many books on practically every aspect of Arthuriana, some wonderful, some inventive, and some that – were I not a hoarder of books – would have been passed to a charity shop by now.
I go back to this particular volume again and again because I love Rosalind’s writing style and the fact she includes extensive notes on each of the seven stories she chose to include (The Coming of Arthur, The Enchantment of Merlin, How Cullwch Won Olwen, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Tristram and Isolde, Elaine who Loved Sir Lancelot, and The End of the Golden Age). As you can see from the second picture, the book itself is beautiful inside as well as out, with glorious illustrations which makes it a true pleasure to pick up.
This book looks lovely!
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The Labyrinth of Gedref
My hardcover of Le Morte d’Arthur arrived today – 3 days late, but it was all worth it. I audibly gasped when I opened the package, the front was just so beautiful I was already in love before I even looked at the rest of the book. It’s a gorgeous teal colour with beautiful golden designs & golden metalic page edges. The inside is just as beautiful as the outside, the illustrations are wonderful, as are the Book title pages. Also, it smells lovely! I am so, so in love with this book. I had the idea when I bought it that I’ll throw away my old Le Morte d’Arthur paperback with the ripped pages & writing (it’s a second hand book) & read/use this new one but it’s so beautiful I feel guilty just touching it. It’s so heavy too, I have to find it a pride of place on my book shelf but aah, how do I put it in a way that you can see the entire book, there’s not one thing I don’t love.
M: There’s a man I’m considering helping. He’s tired. He’s spent his life tending to others and now he just wants to marry the woman he loves and grow old by her side, but there’s an obstacle.
N: He sounds awful.
Arthurian Legends 