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"Won't You Hold My Light...?"
Before I take it back to the library, excerpts from The Light Beyond the Forest about Percy.
This regarding Galahad's sword and the attempted pulling of it by sundry people who were not Galahad:
"Then at the King's bidding Sir Gawain of Orkney, who was the King's nephew and loved him well, set his two hands to the sword-grip and pulled until the veins stood out on his neck, but could not shift the blade; and then young Sir Percival of Wales spat on his hands and tried, more to keep Sir Gawain company than for anything else, for he was a large, kind, simple-hearted young man and had no high opinion of himself."
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Percy meets Galahad for the first time:
"'If I were a tree, and spring was coming--a long way off, but still coming--this is how I should feel,' thought Sir Percival, and his wide serious gaze was on the young knight who sat so gravely and calmly in the forbidden seat. Sir Percival was a born follower, and to such a one there is nothing better in the world than to find the leader his heart goes out to."
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Lancelot finds Percy on the Grail Quest:
"And sitting with his back to an alder tree, helmet off and his yellow head tipped back against the rough bark, Sir Percival, whistling soft and full-throated to a blackbird, and the blackbird whistling back as though they were old friends. But, indeed, Sir Percival was friends with all furred and feathered things. He got to his feet when he saw Sir Lancelot ride out from the woodshore, slowly, as men move in armour, and they greeted each other; and when Sir Lancelot had turned his own horse loose to graze beside the other, they sat down again together beneath the alder tree. And Sir Percival asked if he had seen or heard anything of Sir Galahad.
'Netiher sound nor sight,' said Lancelot.
Percival sighed.
'Were you seeking him?'
'I was hoping we might ride together a little while,' Percival said, 'but it was a foolish hope.'
It seemed to Lancelot that the knight beside him was young to be riding errant and alone in the dark forest. And yet that was foolishness, for Percival had shown himself in the jousting to be no green boy. He was older than Galahad by at least a year, and no one would be thinking Galahad young to ride errant, no matter through what dark forest."
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Anyway, I really like this, and I love that her Percy is so much like mine, it's silly and wonderful. And I just love the Grailkids inordinately, and I love Ms. Sutcliff's interpretation. So that's what that was all about.
This regarding Galahad's sword and the attempted pulling of it by sundry people who were not Galahad:
"Then at the King's bidding Sir Gawain of Orkney, who was the King's nephew and loved him well, set his two hands to the sword-grip and pulled until the veins stood out on his neck, but could not shift the blade; and then young Sir Percival of Wales spat on his hands and tried, more to keep Sir Gawain company than for anything else, for he was a large, kind, simple-hearted young man and had no high opinion of himself."
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Percy meets Galahad for the first time:
"'If I were a tree, and spring was coming--a long way off, but still coming--this is how I should feel,' thought Sir Percival, and his wide serious gaze was on the young knight who sat so gravely and calmly in the forbidden seat. Sir Percival was a born follower, and to such a one there is nothing better in the world than to find the leader his heart goes out to."
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Lancelot finds Percy on the Grail Quest:
"And sitting with his back to an alder tree, helmet off and his yellow head tipped back against the rough bark, Sir Percival, whistling soft and full-throated to a blackbird, and the blackbird whistling back as though they were old friends. But, indeed, Sir Percival was friends with all furred and feathered things. He got to his feet when he saw Sir Lancelot ride out from the woodshore, slowly, as men move in armour, and they greeted each other; and when Sir Lancelot had turned his own horse loose to graze beside the other, they sat down again together beneath the alder tree. And Sir Percival asked if he had seen or heard anything of Sir Galahad.
'Netiher sound nor sight,' said Lancelot.
Percival sighed.
'Were you seeking him?'
'I was hoping we might ride together a little while,' Percival said, 'but it was a foolish hope.'
It seemed to Lancelot that the knight beside him was young to be riding errant and alone in the dark forest. And yet that was foolishness, for Percival had shown himself in the jousting to be no green boy. He was older than Galahad by at least a year, and no one would be thinking Galahad young to ride errant, no matter through what dark forest."
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( more )Anyway, I really like this, and I love that her Percy is so much like mine, it's silly and wonderful. And I just love the Grailkids inordinately, and I love Ms. Sutcliff's interpretation. So that's what that was all about.
