Tristan and Iseult
In Our Time
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The Death Ceiling Love
The story became less popular and it became achieved a low sunken status below the great Arthur legends is there any one explanation for that. But I think the fact that it disappears quickly is simply a change in society. Basically love only ends in two ways either you die or it goes wrong so as soon as narrative of love appears if an author wants to say someone's love is perfect then logically we need to see the characters die. We need to see that they loved one another up to the point of death. And Marie retells the Tristan story in a very abbreviated version in which she brings this to a perfect symbol. They're a milky Tom Fuschine who was
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