Monday, March 17, 2008

Sir Gawain Revealed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight
When Pappi was in his last year at high school, the English teacher read "Sir Gawain and The Green Knight" to the class, but the term ended before the story was finished, and Pappi was left in suspense until he discovered JRR Tolkein's version of this story a few years ago. It is a very intriguing story, although not particularly easy reading to a modernist fed on Readers Digest rules for writing popular literature (About this horror, more another time).

Anyway, on visiting the Wikipedia site this morning before 5 a.m., Pappi discovered the above reference and analysis of the story, and found it really rivetting. He will read the story again, in time. In the meantime, you should take a peek..

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