#connecticut yankee in king arthur's court

[i-see-me-in-food]

just predicted a solar eclipse, why are people coming at me with burning branches

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[stormneedle]

I'll be working during the totality Monday. But if I wasn't, I think watching "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (1949) would be a good movie to watch.

Any other entertainments that involve total eclipses?

Hmmm... maybe stick with the R and under ratings?

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[mackerelphones]

Below are some illustrations by Daniel Carter Beard from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain, a classic isekai tale of a guy named Hank who is hit in the head so hard he somehow lands in King Arthur's England. Twain depicts the place as a land of barbaric cruelty and superstition, where the average joe Hank rapidly accrues power and eventually sets himself up as a capitalist powerful enough to rival the heinous church. I don't think it's a good novel, but it contains as much fiery hatred for monarchy than anything else I've read, matching some Soviet stuff. Even if much of Twain's hatred is directed at things at least sort of made up, and it misrepresents and condescends to the intelligence of medieval people to a degree that would be wildly racist except that the dim-witted, childish, superstitious natives who get colonized by the enlightened modern man are white.

Many of the illustrations, like the one below, suggest the depiction of a thieving, unjust, hypocritical, self-serving monarchy that brainwashes people into cringing worms should be read as a veiled (or not) attack on the robber barons of the day. But the actual narrative is masturbation over brilliant American ingenuity and can-do spirit. An incoherency and seeming unwillingness to commit to more interesting statements is the defining trait of at least Mark Twain's most famous work, so this seems typical enough.

Without these original, often political cartoon-style illustrations, the text is less fun, and its meaning is different. It's a shame the novel is ever printed without them.

Though largely a comedy, stretches of A Connecticut Yankee are bleak, tragic, and gruesome to an extent exceeding what is usual for the genre. Identifying the novel as a comedy seems misleading. The ending, for instance, involves Hank being buried alive under corpses and losing his family.

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[liridi]

Heyy, I'm starting to get interested in reading the Arthurian Legend/Story/Mith (?), and I was just wondering if you have any reccomendations on where to start with what books? I hope you have a nice day, Take care!

Oh thanks for the ask. I can only half answer this? I'm much better with my Greek myths. I've read a fair number of arthuriana texts but there are so many arthuriana blogs on here that faaar outmatch me with regards to the texts they've read.

I would personally start with Gawain and the Green Knight, I think it's a great entry point and one of the strongest texts in arthuriana. If you enjoy that one I think you're pretty much green lit to continue on.

Then it's a bit of a question what you want to do?

If you want an oversight of the "plot" of Arthuriana (ie. the rise and downfall of Camelot, from Arthur's conception to his death) you either want to start with the Vulgate Cycle (long but well written, the translation by Norris Lacy is recommended) or Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory (based on the Vulgate Cycle, it's shorter but still long, and worse written, but definitely the basis for later/modern arthuriana). These are inaccesible bricks of reading material, I'm still slogging through Le Morte, two years later. But they're pretty much the bedrocks at the bottom of our modern arthuriana "canon" (no such thing but you know what I mean) so :///

If you want more readable later adaptations that cemented our modern arthuriana "canon", you either want Alfred Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King or The Once and Future King by TH White.

If you want to keep reading short stories set in the Arthuriana world I recommend by personal favorite, the Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle. I've also been highly recommended The Knight of the Cart by Chretien de Troyes, the introduction of Lancelot and his affair with Guinevere. Courtly love!!!

But here I defer to @queer-ragnelle they can definitely give you a better answer.

Good luck!

#this doesnt even touch on modern classics like a connecticut yankee in king arthurs court #too many texts!!! #answered.liridi

[forthegothicheroine]

The problem with most adaptations of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is that they may get the humor, but they miss the anger. It's a very angry book. The narrator is angry about serfdom, angry that they are forbidden to learn to read, angry that a flighty mistress can kill one for no reason and legally get away with it, angry that King Arthur is a good man for his time but until he's experienced all this himself he just doesn't get it. (It took me a while to get it, myself- that Mark Twain, author of Huckleberry Finn and Puddinhead Wilson, was probably talking about something more than medieval feudalism.) The only version I've seen that captures this is, of all things, A Knight in Camelot with Whoopi Goldberg.

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[salticid]

marking some twain

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[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Eclipse-themed screenings at local theaters.

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[publicdomaincharacters]

Here is a public domain character,Hank Morgan from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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[thebeautifulbook]

A YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT [aka A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT] by Mark Twain [aka Samuel L. Clemens]. (New York: Webster, 1889)

book

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[idkaguyorsomething]

anyways, here’s your regularly scheduled reminder that two of the very first science fiction novels were respectively the world’s most pathetic college dropout having to deal with his son getting his hands on edgy bible fanfiction and a cowboy getting isekai’d into arthurian times who decides to take over the world

#they are both far more depressing than you’d expect #frankenstein #mary shelly's frankenstein #a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court #holy hells mark twain i know the timeline has to remain stable and all that shit but did you have to destroy EVERYTHING like that

[lifes-commotion]

Rhonda Fleming

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[rjalker]

I edited out the caption since I couldn't read half of it

[ID: A greyscale illustration from the book A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, showing a king with sword and shield, a pope, and a nobleman raising a glass of wine, all sitting or standing on the backs of a farmer who is belt double under their weight as he uses a scythe to harvest wheat. There is a rope or cloth around his neck that the nobleman pulls on like a reign, and the king has one foot directly on the back of the farmer's head. All of the rich people are fully clothes with expensive furs and cloths, and the farmer and barefoot, with nothing visible except his legs and arms. In the bottom right corner of this drawing is a smaller bubble with sillowet figures showing the farmer bucking off the three aristocrats like a horse, with his hands on the ground and his legs kicked back into the air, sending them all flying. End ID.]

This image is public domain.

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[gayboymint]

hank morgan thee guy ever

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[chuthulhu-reads]

[ID: an old paperback copy of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. The drawing on the cover shows a knight in full armour with part of his helmet cracked open to allow for a pipe, holding a match, and wearing a small badge that says "The Boss". End ID.]

I read this on Project Gutenberg years ago and it has remained one of the most unhinged things I've ever read (though it makes more sense when you notice it's really just a thinly-veiled political treatise about how kings suck and society should be more Socialist), so when I saw this cover in a cavernous second-hand shop I had to get it. I wonder if there's a cover of the main character pointing a gun at Merlin, which I'm fairly sure he does at one point.

#Mark Twain #a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court

[randomnumbers751650]

If I had the opportunity, I'd write a very weird crossover with Fate/Stay Night. Mark Twain wrote a book called A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, about an engineer -Hank Morgan, Sir Boss - who somehow ended in the Arthurian Britain.

So, yeah, it's kind of an Isekai, but it'd be Saber reminiscing in a moment about her friend Sir Boss that talked a lot about the power of technology and how different his homeland was from Camelot, and then she'd get marveled at the world Sir Boss foresaw.

#fate/stay night #mark twain #a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court #i think that could be an interesting thing #but i didnt finish fsn #and i kinda let fgo aside #i can see it being a fgo event #like solving some pseudosingularity #involving saber helping sir boss spirit to move on #and itd also gove something for her to do #since shes so much in rhe background in fgo #and merlin being nasty about him haha

[salticid]

you know this just off the top of your head??

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