![]() ![]() Fortunately, when I did return my fears proved unsurprisingly ill-founded: The Once and Future King remains excellent, though not without its flaws. What finally brought me back to it was my impression that Marion Zimmer Bradley’s The Mists of Avalon was targeted at White’s whimsies and anachronisms even more, perhaps, than at Tennyson’s dignity or the dominance of Mallory’s stories in the popular imagination. White’s The Once and Future King out of a sort of fear that I might find it less meaningful than I did when I enjoyed it as a teenager. In my Arthurian spree a few years back I had initially avoided revisiting T. ![]()
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