Thomas Hardy's Medieval Mind
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The Story of Tintangel
Jethro Monmouth, who is this 12th century writer who's really responsible for the sort of for the whole Arthurian stuff. So he, during that first week that he spent with Emma, they go to Tintangel. And it's at this moment, you can see kind of generating this notion that he is Sertristrum and she is Isalt. It's a bit like cosplaying as we have these days,. This kind of adoption of roles, which allow them to step out of their actual lives.
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