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Originally Posted by Guinevere
I started reading T.H.White's "The Once and Future King", but found it rather strange - it was just not my cup of tea.
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That's why there's camomile, Earl Grey, oolong, etc. -- there's a cup of tea for everyone.
For me, it was an extremely funny book which turns very sad, and it's that juxtaposition of humor and melancholy which got me. And the profound nature of T.h. White's pacificism is imbued in the very fabric of the tale. One literally cries when Arthur, old and tired and wiser, raises his hands to stop the charge of his men and Mordred's, but his effort is as futile as trying to hold back a tidal wave, and he falls in the cataclym. One of my all-time favorites, right up there with LotR.