{"id":6245,"date":"2008-06-27T14:18:32","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T19:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2008\/06\/27\/why_i_am_writing_about_king_arthur\/"},"modified":"2008-06-27T14:18:32","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T19:18:32","slug":"why_i_am_writing_about_king_arthur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2008\/06\/27\/why_i_am_writing_about_king_arthur\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Am Writing About King Arthur"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The BBC just put up a news item<\/a> about a King Arthur book<\/strong>, written by Philip Reeve, which won the UK’s oldest book award for his novel “Here Lies Arthur”.<\/p>\n

He beat six others to win. The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) award is in its 71st year.<\/p>\n

According to the article:<\/p>\n

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The legendary figure of King Arthur is presented in Reeve’s tale as a war-mongering, self-interested “thug”. <\/p>\n

The book [has] also been described as a political satire and an expose of the ancient art of spin-doctoring. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The author puts it this way:<\/p>\n

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“It’s a slightly irreverent take which presents Arthur as a not very important minor warlord – or gangster – in about 500AD.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And this is why I am writing about King Arthur<\/strong>—to provide a counter thrust to the post-modern trend of deflating and destroying everything that holds up an ideal. Of making everything spin and fakery. The post-modern goal is to knock the wind out of belief, faith, hope, and love.<\/p>\n

This is a spiritual battle.<\/em><\/p>\n

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