"Classic Literature" or "Did You Know...?"

[Seil]

Many of you know my infatuation with knights and knighthood. I loved "The Legend Of King Arthur," "Don Quixote," and any fantasy piece that pops up based around dudes fighting bad guys and rescuing damsels in distress.

So I started reading "The Three Musketeers." Why? Because I had read all of this already.

Did you know that the movie is somewhat different?



For example, the book doesn't have any airships.

But what I thought was a book about knights and questing and the common good is apparently more about four soldiers of the king dicking around in France, being broke, mooching food, and only performing heroic deeds for the good of the crown if girls are watching.

So it's less about the fantasy of knights than it is about... well, real, actual knights, incidentally.

Please note that I have similar misgivings about King Arthur - did you know that in the original book, Arthur warred with Lancelot for the affections of Gwenivere?



And Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables weren't written as musicals!