Sword in the Stone
by Walt Disney · first published 1988
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…human nature. He is writing right after WWII, and the Arthurian legend is just a vehicle for his observations about humanity (and the war). Wonderful book - I just finished reading the first section (the Sword in the Stone) out loud to my daughter, and I hope as she gets older, she will read the rest on her own.
on “Ask HN: Which non-technology book has influenced you the most and why?” ↗The lord of the rings is a good one, especially if you skip the songs. Then it’s simply an adventure story. The Sword in the Stone is pretty good in this regard. Apart from that first book (which is published as a standalone book) the entire Once and Future King is too complex for a child, I think (instead it would come off as boring…
on “The Good Soldier Švejk (2018)” ↗I loved The Sword in The Stone as a child, and should probably re-read it someday. However, I found the later books were nowhere near as interesting, with characters going into long monologues that were just White propounding his own…
on “King Arthur's ancient trail across Britain” ↗…through the lives of two families that become interwoven over time. * H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald. Macdonald's book is part auto-biography (dealing with depression), part biography on T. H. White (of Sword in the Stone's fame), and lightly part guide on caring for hawks. * The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov. This was actually a repeat read for me after 7+ years of my first read through. Two new foundations are…
on “Ask HN: Great Books from your 2021 Reading List?” ↗…with lots of local computation could just as well "think", just not like us. Ants and termites are extreme examples of this though we don't typically think of them as a single organism (except in The Sword in the Stone) but they have collective behavior. Bacterial biofilms too. And in fact all parts of our brain do not communicate with all others; there are specialized subprocessing in the early visual system (cf…
on “Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy?” ↗The character was in the initial version of the Sword in the Stone. The Once and Future King has a revised version without Madam Mim along with other modifications. The Once and Future King is not a novel but a collection of four previously published works. It is also…
on “Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books” ↗There is no singular, “real” Grail story as such. Ignore the lines about Disney, though I enjoyed their version of the sword in the stone. Thats from a retelling written in the early 20th century. The grail legend as we have it was largely assembled in the middle ages, but it is fundamentally a Celtic tale in that the primary thematic…
on “King Arthur's ancient trail across Britain” ↗