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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 08:12:42 -0500
From: Diana Wright <nauplion@charm.net>
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Askwick@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 12/23/00 11:27:23 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> sjwillett@earthlink.net writes:
>
> << On 23 Dec 2000, at 13:44, Askwick@aol.com wrote:
>
>  > In a message dated 12/22/00 5:33:59 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>  > sjwillett@earthlink.net writes:
>  >
>  > << The Once and Future King.  Warning sign posted on the ant hill.
>  >  Great novel, and certainly better than Joyce. >>

>  His choice in this case, though, in comparing J with Mary Renault, may be
> pushing the
> envelope.  I've only read The King Must Die once, and never intended to
> reread it.

>

I think you are confusing Renault's "The King Must Die" [Theseus finds a sword
under a stone] with T. H. White's "The Once and Future King" [Arthur finds a sword
IN a stone].

DW


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