You know who Malory hasn’t checked in on, lately? Sir Gawaine! You know why Malory hasn’t checked in on Sir Gawaine? Because he wasn’t doing anything interesting! Since we last saw him in Book XIII, Gawaine had been riding around, … Continue reading →
Eventually Launcelot arrived at a jousting tournament, because it’d just been too long since there was any serious jousting in this novel, I guess. Five hundred knights were jousting in this tournament, on two teams. The White team was really … Continue reading →
Launcelot got up in the morning and rode around for a while. But then he bumped into the Mystery Knight! You may remember the Mystery Knight — he found the Grail and took Launcelot’s sword and helmet and horse, but … Continue reading →
When we last saw Launcelot, back at the end of Book XIII, Nacien had been helping him do penance and repent of all of his sins. Repenting of all of his sins turned out to take three days. On the … Continue reading →
Abruptly the tent was gone, the picnic table was gone, the hammock was gone, the cot that a moment ago had borne a writhing eager naked lady on it was gone. All was smoke and ruin! The sea roiled as … Continue reading →
Once Nacien had interpreted Percivale’s dream for him, he told Percivale it was time to move on. Percivale agreeably dove back into the water, where he washed around he wist not whither for an indeterminate time, again. Eventually he found … Continue reading →
Percivale went down into this implausible valley, where he watched a lion fight a serpent. Naturally Percivale rooted for the lion; when he saw an opening he pulled out his sword and slashed at the serpent and helped the lion … Continue reading →
The next morning Percivale followed the Queen of the Wilderness’s instructions. A day’s ride from her hermitage he found to a remote fortress, which Malory doesn’t want to come right out and identify as Castle Goothe, but I’m pretty sure … Continue reading →
Book XIV is where it gets weird, y’all. Malory explains that Book XIV is all about Sir Percivale, the other holy paladin-knight blessed and foredestined to achieve the Grail. We flash back to when he was last seen, during Chapter … Continue reading →
Later that day, Launcelot arrived at a hermitage, complete with Nacien, this book’s official wise hermit. The two of them sat down, as Launcelot poured out his heart. It was a whole nother monologue about how sad he is! But … Continue reading →
