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caper_estAh, Scene 9, the spear in my heart! But this time the wound is clean, and we will never be quite in hell again - from here on in, our heroes are really heroes at last, doing tearingly generous deeds without recking either of their own glory or of whether the beneficiaries have the least conceivable claim on them.
The changes required in this long section were pleasingly small and subtle, although they have made all the difference.
This is not the climax of its arc - I have a couple of scenes left before I get there. But it is the pivot. This is, of all places, the place where Kate is permanently established as not merely Gawain the flawed flower of the old order, but Launcelot the unwilling and transcendent harbinger of the new. (Who on that reading is Luke? I think he most nearly counts as dead Tristram and living Palomides in one person, which is a pretty interesting combo - and is it utterly an accident that both knights in their latter days came to love Sir Launcelot above all other men? H-m-m-m!)
The rest of the Last Quest Arc should be relatively a glide, in which case I will be back on schedule come Sunday.
The changes required in this long section were pleasingly small and subtle, although they have made all the difference.
This is not the climax of its arc - I have a couple of scenes left before I get there. But it is the pivot. This is, of all places, the place where Kate is permanently established as not merely Gawain the flawed flower of the old order, but Launcelot the unwilling and transcendent harbinger of the new. (Who on that reading is Luke? I think he most nearly counts as dead Tristram and living Palomides in one person, which is a pretty interesting combo - and is it utterly an accident that both knights in their latter days came to love Sir Launcelot above all other men? H-m-m-m!)
The rest of the Last Quest Arc should be relatively a glide, in which case I will be back on schedule come Sunday.
