he began to see why Merlyn had always clowned on purpose. It had been a means of helping people to learn in a happy way. - T. H. White

Leave well alone.

"The author says people are guilty of "wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.

This knight's trouble from his childhood — which he never completely grew out of — was that for him God was a real person. He was not an abstraction who punished you if you were wicked or rewarded you if you were good, but a real person like Guenever, or like Arthur, or like anybody else. Of course he felt that God was better than Guenever or Arthur, but the point was that he was personal. Lancelot had a definite idea of what he looked like, and how he felt — and he was somehow in love with this Person.