When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by those who respect themselves and, consequently, respect others. Gods are for children, for little, fearful people, for those who would have no responsibility to themselves or their fellows.

It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past.

Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

Arthuriana has become a genre in itself, more like TV soap opera where people think they know the characters. All that's fair enough, but it does remove the mythic power of the feminine and masculine principles. So I prefer it in its original form, even if you have to wade through Mallory's 'Le Morte d'Arthur' - people smashing people for pages and pages! It still has the resonances of myth about it, which makes it work for me. I don't want to know if Mordred led an unhappy childhood or not.

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful

I know not which I prefer the look of—those who attack us or that which defends us!