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Introduction
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2018
Merlin
Merlin is an icon: a few lines will create him, sketching the pointed hat and the long beard, plus a magic wand and someone to teach. So T. H. White described him in The Once and Future King, Disney visualized the image in The Sword in the Stone, and Lerner and Loewe set it to music in Camelot. But that image is an illusion of modernity: medieval Merlin was not old and bearded, was wise rather than a wizard, guided countries rather than learners. The modern icon delineates an image not
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