TPPM _The Gift_: Sentence 1: "Camelot"

Glenn Scheper glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Thu Sep 9 09:04:10 CDT 2004


http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/gift.html

I remember being only a pipsqeak, when movies were 35 cents,
that for a double feature, being left to watch many matinees
one hot summer, and one in particular left its impress on my
imagination: There was this american looking hero, in scanty
mid-eastern/genie attire, and men were jumping out of vases,
and there were sword fights up and down stairs, and through
arabesque courtyards. And near the end, I remember that hero
dashing off on some long solitary horse ride, and at the very
end, he is alone, and holding up a single red rose, adoringly.

Whatever that movie was named, *THAT* must have been Camelot.

That resembles courtly love, unrequited. That highlights an
abject man who adopts his fetish and renounces the hegemony.
Here we have Christ willingly becoming the one taboo totem.

Now in my space, I find that a Walter Mitty detachement and
attachment to a private Wonderland of mentation and lust is
the only affordable Camelot, the only place I may be a king.
But I read, probably in an article on Clinton as narcissist,
lacking somatic markers, so that he ratiocinates endlessly;
that Clinton was an intern to J.F.K., in a kind of Camelot.

http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1101960325-135679,00.html
 TIME Magazine Archive Preview -- RELICS OF CAMELOT -- Mar. 25, 1996

 THE FAITHFUL SEEK TROPHIES IN THE SALE OF JACQUELINE
 ONASSIS' HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS


BTW: "Dark Age of Camelot" is a roleplaying game, camping
on the topic with prolix apparent facts, confusing surfing.

http://news.com.com/When+games+stop+being+fun/2100-1040_3-881673.html
_When games stop being fun | CNET News.com_
 the new "Dark Age of Camelot," or "Diablo II"


http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/c/camelot.html
_Review: Camelot_

 10/25/67

 Over the years, one of the most enduring topics for motion
 picture grist has been the Vulgate Cycle - the legends of
 King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, Lancelot,
 Guenevere, Merlin, Galahad, Excalibur, the Holy Grail


http://www.eliki.com/ancient/myth/camelot/
_Camelot & Arthurian Legend_

 Camelot was the most famous castle in the medieval legends
 of King Arthur, and where, according to legend, he reigned
 over Briton before the Saxon conquest. At Camelot Arthur
 established a brilliant court and seated the greatest and
 most chivalrous warriors in Europe, the Knights of the Round
 Table. Camelot was the starting point of the Quest for the
 Holy Grail, and by the 1200's, it came to symbolize the
 center of the Arthurian world.


http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,9803,00.html
_TIME.com: The Myth of Camelot_

 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour M. Hersh's new
 book, "The Dark Side of Camelot" | which hits bookstores
 Monday, with extracts published in this week's TIME | levels
 a whole host of controversial allegations against the late
 President John F. Kennedy.


http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/artmenu.htm
_THE CAMELOT PROJECT: MENU OF ARTISTS_
                       THE CAMELOT PROJECT: MENU OF ARTISTS 
rn to the Home Page of The Camelot Project at the University
Arthur Triumphant" (2002) "Camelot" (2002) "Caval" (2002) "T
earance of the Sangreal at Camelot" (1908) "Sir Bors Sees th
901) "Galahad Rides out of Camelot" (1901) "Gareth Pitches H
ournament in the Meadow by Camelot" (1901) Harrison, Florenc
 (1880) "The Tournament at Camelot" (1880) Kent, William (16
from the Floating Stone at Camelot" (1917) "How King Arthur 
"Elaine's Barge Arrives at Camelot" (1898) "Elaine's Funeral
 (1898) "The Tournament at Camelot" (1898) "Vivien" (1898) "
's Accusations of Those at Camelot" (1898) "Vivien's Spell" 

http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/19990809.html
_What's the connection between Camelot and the Kennedys?_

http://www.camelotintl.com/legend/main_window.html
_Camelot Village: Britain's Heritage and History_

And one more next...

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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