I hadn't seen that in the archives, as the only stuff I've read on Castleview in the archives is the stuff from last month, but it does make sense. I believe there's even a comment somewhere about there being many people "of the king's blood." Thanks for the clarification.
<br><br>-Matt<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Straight</b> <<a href="mailto:mfstraight@gmail.com">mfstraight@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 6/19/07, Matthew Keeley <<a href="mailto:matthew.keeley.1@gmail.com">matthew.keeley.1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> 1.There seems to be a lot of discussion about whether Wrangler / Arthur<br>> Dunstan or Will Shields is the "real" Arthur; this got me thinking about
<br>> just how many characters in Castleview seem to represent either part of an<br>> Arthurian figure or several Arthurian figures.<br><br>You may have seen this in the archives, but one of the ideas in the<br>book (I believe this is straight from Wolfe), is that the gene pool in
<br>Arthur's time was so small and there's been enough generations of<br>mixing so that today, almost anyone with European ancestors is a<br>descendant of Arthur. So while the faerie folk seem be looking for the<br>
"true" descendant of Arthur (it's not clear whether they realize this<br>or not), in fact, everyone human in the story is equally a true<br>descendant of Arthur. And so several of the characters end up acting
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