Re: "Lancelot Andrews Lamar"


Subject: Re: "Lancelot Andrews Lamar"
From: G.K. Barranger (nikkibar@wild.net)
Date: Thu Jun 03 1999 - 15:22:23 EDT


Benjamin Elias wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I am a university student reading Percy's works for the first time. My
> literature instructor pointed out that in the book Lancelot, the name of the
> protagonist is linked to Lancelot du Lac. I recently found a sentence which
> reveals that his name also mirrors that of "Lancelot Andrews Lamar . . . the
> great Anglican divine." Who is this divine and what is his connection to
> Lance?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben Elias
The name Lancelot is usually likned in the book with the Percival who
apepars at the end of the book as the father -confessor-shrink as a
round table analogue. I've never heard of the Lamar linkage.

Nikki



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