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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MaxKaladin" data-source="post: 1944306" data-attributes="member: 1196"><p>I once read a book that poked some fun at this.  I can't remember the title or even many of the details and the book is in storage, but the basic plot was more or less the usual farmboy makes good story with some twists but it had an undercurrent of mocking that tendency in Arthurian romance.  In the book, it turned out that the farmboy was the son of a noble, of course, but the interesting part was the reaction of the various characters in the story.  The protagonist had been struggling all the time up to that point to gain even minimum acceptance among the nobility in the face of being an 'upstart peasant'.  Suddenly, all that was forgotten and the nobility started treating him as if he had always been one of them even though nothing else had changed.  Meanwhile, the peasants he had grown up among suddenly treated him with the extremely careful respect they treated all nobles with and acted as if they had never known him and his former life had never happened.  It was very much as if the author was taking the 'blood is what matters' theme in Arthurian literature and taking it to an absurd extreme to show it for what it was.  It was a rather entertaining book.</p></blockquote><p></p>