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CHRISTMAS IS COMING IN ITS flVCOMPLETliEQM Steinbecks secret book out NEW YORK Renter John Steinbecks secret book the one he dreamt ot writing for more than 40 years has been published in its incomplete form to serve as reminder of the greatness of not one but two writers The book called The Acts ot King Arthur and His Noble Knights began as an attempt by the late Nobel Prize winner to retell lhomas Malorys Mor te dArthur tor the modern ear Without losing the 15thcentury works magic and mystery But as Steinbeck progressed in his retelling of King Arthurs birth Merlins magic and Guineveres deceit the artist took hold adding reality to myth until linally the reader al most tastes the dust thrown up bya Joust it is reversal ot Steinbecks past work where he added myth to tlesh as in East of Eden in Which battle between two Calitornia brothers at the time at the First World War became the story 0t Cain and Abel GRAH UNllAlNABlE The last book Is also Stein becks personal quest tor the Holy Grant and in his way at thinking work he never ex pected to complete For as his Widow Elaine Steinbeck explained in an inter View lhe King Arthur book was the carrot on the stick in tront ot his nose Then she reached tor the vol ume ot his letters that she co edited and read The Grail is always one gen eration ahead ot us But it is King Arthur and his knights He had grown up in family which exuded Shakespeare the Bible and Pilgrims Progress and he discovered Morte dArthur on his own STUDIES EXTENSIVE And she recalled how he kept the dream of doing his own ver sion of Malorys work for 40 years prOJect he referred to often as his secret book He felt that Malory rewrote the legends and he should re write Malory The dream of retelling Malory became Steinbecks personal quest It led him to every great hall in England to the Vatican Library to the rare original editions ot Morte dAr thur and to all the Arthurian and Malorian sites He and his children fashioned weapons according to medieval design and he and his Wite lived tor year in an ancient house in Somerset the county where Ar thur is believed to have lived centuries belore It was there in 1959 nine years betore his death that Steinbeck began rewriting the legends He worked not trom the edi tion of Morte dArthur that was printed by William traxton which tor centuries was the source at Matorys epic but from the manuscript discovered at Winchester College in 1934 WROTE SEVEN TALES Caxton the lamous early English printer was severe editor ot Malory and the Win chester work lSS£lVC lor eight missmg pages at the end the more complete work Steinbeck wrote seven ot Malorys 20 stories stopping With the story ol Lancelot never reaching the lina talew the death at Arthur by the son he sired With his hallsister BeSides the seven stories his book contains section ol letv ters Steinbeck wrote to his agent and to his triend hase Horton New York bookseller who helped him With his re search and served as editor ot the completed version The letters tell ot Steinbecks struggles trying to pin person ality onto Arthur character he dismisses in one letter as basically dope and it his tascmation tor Malory until he reaches the point where he thinks he knows the mans mind Malory lived in as rough and ruthless and corrupt an age as the world has ever produced he writes tn the Morte he in no way minimizes these things But he does not let them put out the sun Side by side With them are generosity and courage and greatness and the huge sadness ol tragedy rather than the little meanness ot trustration And this is probably Why he is great erltl Hut still as Malory rewrote the legends Steinbeck ttlt ll his duty to do the same to Malory For much ot the Arthurian kmM Us he BarrieflExamiiier Monday January 1977 legend has been cleaned up and what most people know ot it is lairy tale lit to reCIte to three yearold child But ot course it is not Ar thur tor example orders the slaughter at all children born on May in an ettort to destroy the baby Merlin tells him is destined to kill the king And Merlin comes to ridicu lous end As DancinfiFun ismas lessons for Only $750 The old Wizard in Stein becks modern phrase went panting after young maiden taught her all his tricks and wound up being im prisoned tor all time in rock thanks to an unbreakable spell he taught her And yet for all the delights Steinbecks Malory offers his readers the author himself was unhappy with his work otter Learning is Easy Theres still time to learn few basics Whether its the modern Disco Dances or more traditional like New Years WoltzWhats your interest Lets make this your most exciting Holiday Season ever We might be the best Christmas present you ever gave yourself Call 7373610 PATS DANCE SOCIAL CENTRE MLALALLAL4 ALLALAWL Bundled against the cold Frost lett the Hussran WW 50 W0 01 30 Dear youngsters are still looking two Moscow women and ttiodox version at Santa At torward to Christmas which mg Sons who Will bear sons who their 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