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Oh the irony

The chapter on death is excellent. If I remember my death, I have nothing to fear; and when I reflect that my life up to now has "died," I can live with more urgency and freedom!

There's a remarkable improvement in the style and material after book twelve, on Lancelot's madness and the beginning of the Grail quest. I plan to recommend that other readers just start with this volume. Perhaps at this point Malory is more willing to revise the old fables - or perhaps less so!

Slow going

No book is so boring and simultaneously so interesting!