for few people can hate so bitterly and so self-righteously as the members of a ruling caste which is being dispossessed. - T. H. White

He, unfortunately for himself, had been beautifully brought up. His teacher had educated him as the child is educated in the womb, where it lives the history of man from fish to mammal — and, like the child in the womb, he had been protected with love meanwhile. The effect of such an education was that he had grown up without any of the useful accomplishments for living — without malice, vanity, suspicion, cruelty, and the commoner forms of selfishness. Jealousy seemed to him the most ignoble of vices. He was sadly unfitted for hating his best friend or torturing his wife. He had been given too much love and trust to be good at these things.

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.

Gawaine and Gareth took turns with the fat ass, one of them whacking it while the other rode bareback.