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  Book 4: The Candle in the Wind

  Incipit Liber Quartus

  He thought a little and said:
  I have found the Zoological Gardens of service to many of my patients. I should prescribe for Mr. Pontifex a course of the larger mammals. Don't let him think he is taking them medicinally-------

  
  

  The Candle in the Wind is the fourth book from the collection The Once and Future King by T. H. White. It deals with the last weeks of Arthur's reign, his dealings with his son Mordred's revolts, Guenever and Lancelot's demise, and his perception of right and wrong. The book ends with Arthur, on the brink of his last battle with Mordred, looking back on his seemingly failed attempt to stop the Might is Right thinking of the age, and contemplating all the reasons for which men go to war.

  mossflower started this discussion 7 months ago. ( reply )

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  Ondine 

  Don't you think fantasy and epic are brilliant venues for expressing war angst? So many of that school or era used the opportunity, and the result is a profound depth to overtly child-like texts.

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    Bennnc63 

    I agree that fantasy does provide a wonderful venue for discussing war. Many writers tend to be somewhat liberal in their thinking (this I think is due to their thoughts on free thinking wether spoken or written) most liberals tend to be against war, so there is a great deal written to show it's horrors and in discouraging the idea of the "glory's of war". Understand, I make this statement as an observation, not as a political statement.

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