Re: Best fantasy novels after Tolkien?
Raven
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> Because Malory does not write in a zippy, modren style and he is so
> old-fangle.
> No explicit sex either.
But quite a bit of implicit sex, though. Such as when IIRC Iseult is
proven an adultress by means of a magic cup - an adultress cannot drink from
it without spilling some. She is set up for roasting, but then it is
pointed out that practically all women who are tested with that cup spill,
and so if all women who are proven guilty of adultery by that dark magic are
for the fire then it's going to be mighty short of women in the castle.
Brân.
Count Menelvagor
yah, and in an earlir version, yseult of the white hands laughs when
the river splashes her thighs, saying that the water had been far more
free with her than her putative husband, tristan.
tirant lo blanc has globs of explicit tuff. there's also the mildly
squicky fact that the heroine is only 14 ...
Larry Swain
Just did the Miller's Tale and Wife of Bath in class this week....now
there's good explicit sex for ya...Malory as I recall has a lot of
implicit sex...implicit in the sense that he doesn't say "and they had
sex, people!" But implicit in letting your imagination work with how
they worked so hard at night....