[Magdalen] Apology.

[Christopher Hart]

According to Wikipedia:

In Arthurian legend, the Siege Perilous (also known as The Perilous Seat)
is a vacant seat at the Round Table reserved by Merlin for the knight who
would one day be successful in the quest for the Holy Grail.

In Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur, in an account taken from the Vulgate
Queste del Saint Graal, the newly knighted Sir Galahad takes the seat in
Camelot on Whitsunday, 454 years after the death of Jesus. The Siege
Perilous is so strictly reserved that it is fatal to anyone else who sits
in it. Another version of this story is related in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's
Idylls of the King.

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 5:05 AM, Sally Davies <sally.davies at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thinking of you, Mike, and wishing you well. With far less excuse, other
> than a cricket test match being on the TV, I've also been doing little more
> than nothing all weekend!
>
> Siege Perilous...what is that? My kids' school has a much prized award each
> year, that is voted on by the kids, for the Matric (school leaver) who best
> represents the spirit of the school. It's called the Siege Perilous but I
> have no idea why and until now it didn't occur to me that this could be A
> Thing.
>
> Sally D
>
> On 24 January 2016 at 05:20, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> > >>>No apology necessary, Mike. Unremitting pain is miserable. Some of us
> > have
> > BTDT and understand all too well. Just take care of yourself, OK?<<<
> >
> > Thanks, Jay.  Since we can't help but blend all of our trials together
> > when we're feeling like shit, it's inevitable that my woe and sadness is
> > about more than my medical ills.  So, once again, thanks.
> >
> > As for taking care of myself, today I got out of bed at noon, and then
> > promptly set myself an agenda of Nothing, which I finished ahead of
> > schedule so as to allow for extra Nothing on top of that.  I just paid
> > Round Table* for dinner, so life's pretty sweet right now.  Or at least
> > salty.
> >
> > [*I want to walk in some time and demand to see the Siege Perilous.]
> >
>



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