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{FREE} the Once and Future King Ebook THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING PDF, EPUB, EBOOK T H White | 639 pages | 22 Jul 2011 | Penguin Publishing Group | 9780441627400 | English | New York, NY, United States The Once and Future King | Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing - eBooks | Read eBooks online However, Arthur's thoughts on the origins of war, if they are not meant to undercut the speaker, are hard to accept given what has gone before in the narrative. They appear to negate the greater part of the sequence's continuing discussion of war and national identity. When Merlin gives Arthur a potted history of the British Isles, he argues that first the Gaels fought among themselves before being invaded by two waves of Saxon invasions mixed up with a Roman intervention, before the arrival of the Normans, represented in the book, by Arthur's father, Uther Pendragon. Arthur uses the term "imagined" in opposition to "real" as if such notions could be "unimagined" and a reality reasserted—although he also simultaneously acknowledges the impossibility of living without such distinctions and boundaries. White's adaptation of Malory in the published conclusion of his work effectively shelves the problem by spiriting both king and nation out of the present and into the past and future. Neither exist as current realities, only as once and future fictions, so that all we are left with is the contradictory notion that we need national identities but can also leave them behind when we want to. Arthur is referring back to the freedom he experienced with the Utopian geese, who do not recognise boundaries, but his experience as a ruler illustrates that their way of life is no more plausible than White's own attempt to escape from the violence of fascism by retreating into the wood to train a goshawk. White had been reluctant to abandon this novel and, having been forced to do so, transferred the central episodes where Arthur is transformed into an ant and a goose into The Sword in the Stone , where, arguably, they lose their polemical force as a diptych illustrating the two extreme possibilities of national identity. Despite its patently unfinished state and obviously distorted relationship to the published omnibus, The Book of Merlin perhaps represents a more accurate approximation of its author's intentions than the published conclusion. First, he is transformed into a Nazi ant an episode later transferred to the revised version of The Sword in the Stone published in The Once and Future King , where aggressive nationalism is a constantly ingrained ideology. Despite all that he has learnt among the geese his patriotism remains exactly the same as it was before when he decided that it was his duty to fight for his country: "He was an Englishman, and England was at war. However much he hated it, or willed to stop it, he was lapped round in a real but intangible sea of English feeling which he could not control. To go against it, to wrestle with the sea, was more than he could face again" Book of Merlin This appears to be a recognition that the assumption of a national identity and the need to defend right with might cannot be avoided and obviously refers directly to the Second World War. Whereas at the end of the published version of The Once and Future King , national boundaries were assumed to be imagined and therefore expendable entities, here such forces are beyond the control of the individual mind. However, Arthur has changed the territory over which he rules: he is no longer the king of Britain, but of England so that his struggle with Mordred changes from a battle over a contested space to a war between separated and separable countries. The Gaels have moved beyond Arthur's nation and Merlin's belief in the easily distinguishable nature of good and bad wars once more applies. Merlin becomes increasingly ridiculous in his vilification of man, nationalism and war, and the animals start to poke fun at his theories Book of Merlin , ch. Merlin himself accedes: "He knew now, since the royal hero had returned victorious in his choice, that his own wisdom was not the end. He knew that he had finished his tutorship" Book of Merlin Merlin's wisdom is not the end because he has little understanding of the problem of national identity. The Book of Merlin , unrevised, sketchy and its themes closely tied to a specific situation, gives a more coherent answer to some of the issues least satisfactorily resolved in the published conclusion to The Candle in the Wind , but only at the expense of ignoring other problems, principally the vexed question of how to resolve the contested space of national identities and eliding the distinction between Britain and England. White initially dismissed the possibility that he might fight for a patriotic ideal in his letters and placed his ideal of art outside such boundaries: "I asked myself before I got the "flu: if I fought in the war, what would I be fighting for? Not England, qua geographical boundaries; not freedom, that is always in the mind; not anything except what I call civilization. White was consequently forced to return to the question of that form time and again in his fictional explorations of such matters. All subsequent references to this edition in parentheses. I have greatly benefited from the discussions I have had with my undergraduate students who took my special option course, "Arthurian Literature: Myth and Interpretation," especially Joanna Terry, James Shingler and Heather Savage. Thanks also to Tim Woods who read an earlier draft and saved me from numerous errors. See also White's entry in his journal, 27 September, , which lists the characteristics he intended to give Lancelot; cited in Brewer, T. White and L. White: A Biography , ch. White's The Once and Future King , chs. White: A Biography White's Once and Future King , ch. Most of this material was added in the rewriting of the novel which deliberately focusses on the problem of might versus right and Arthur's growing awareness of the problem. White's The Once and Future King Manlove, "Flight to Aleppo: T. Crane, T. 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