Born this day: 05/29/1906 (d. 01/17/1964)
T. H. White was an English SciFi & Fantasy author. He is best known for his Arthurian novels. In 2014, The Sword in the Stone was awarded a retrospective Hugo Award for Best Novel for 1939.

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"The destiny of man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees."

~ T. H. White, born today, 1906.

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The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.

T.H. White
-The Once and Future King-
-Book 2| The Queen of Air and Darkness-

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"He said, 'Good dog, Beaumont the valiant, sleep now, old friend Beaumont, good old dog.' Then Robin's sword let Beaumont out of this world, to run free with Orion and roll among the stars."
- T. H. White, "The Sword in the Stone"
🎨 Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix

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Some time ago I came upon someone asking what would be a good introduction to the Arthurian cycle and the matter of Britain, and the replies mentioned that this book would be a good one that covered “most of it”.

Dear Reader, if you have been here me for a while you’ll know I am deeply lazy and love “most of it” works, so this piqued my interest.

I am glad it did cause this book was very […]

Among the old British Celts, a newborn prince would often be given to another family to raise until he became an adult. In some early King Arthur stories, Arthur is raised by the fairies. In later stories, he's instead raised by Sir Ector, the father of Kay (Arthur's best friend).

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"He said, 'Good dog, Beaumont the valiant, sleep now, old friend Beaumont, good old dog.' Then Robin's falchion let Beaumont out of this world, to run free with Orion and roll among the stars."
- T. H. White, "The Sword in the Stone"
🎨 Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix

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T.H. White was writing stories for an era that wasn't here yet. There are scenes in Sword in the Stone that would lend themselves handily to a modern fan Wikipedia treatment.

Of Madame Mim's cottage: "The Wart caught a hurried glimpse of her parlor and kitchen. The lace curtains, the aspidistra, the lithograph called the Virgin's Choice, the printed text of the Lord's Prayer written backwards and hung upside-down, the sea-shell, the needle-case in the shape of a heart with A Present from Camelot written on it, the broom sticks, the cauldrons, and the bottles of dandelion wine."

There's a lot going on here.

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