Rules for a Knight: The Last Letter of Sir Thomas Lemuel Hawke

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The story's very ambiguity steadily feeds its mysteriousness and power, and Danielewski's mastery of postmodernist and cinema-derived rhetoric up the ante continuously, and stunningly. One of the most impressive excursions into the supernatural in many a year. Een vader schrijft aan de vooravond van een veldslag zijn vier kinderen een brief, met daarin vervat de regels om nobel te leven. Dezelfde regels die hij op zijn beurt van zijn grootvader - waarvan hij schildknaap was - overgeleverd kreeg. Eigenlijk net als een hedendaagse overwerkte vader op zakenreis zou kunnen doen. Iedereen kan ten slotte plotseling 'geveld' worden. Iedere eeuw heeft daarvoor zijn ziekten en ongevallen. Faith– Thomas remembers a woman who went mad with grief after the loss of her son. Thomas's grandfather designed a task for her so that she might learnt he sorrow of others, allowing her to regain her mind. This handbook for knights is a 6” x 4” hardcover bound with green cloth and a gold ribbon to place as you read. Hawke initially did not intend it for wide circulation: It was begun when his wife and he decided to have some “rules of the house,” which became more like “rules for living” the more he tried to think about what was really important to share with his children.

The quality of your life will, to a large extent, be decided by with whom you elect to spend your time. There are only two possible outcomes whenever you compare yourself to another, vanity or bitterness, and both are without value. Every knight holds human equality as an unwavering truth. A knight is never present when men or women are being degraded or compromised in any way, because if a knight were present, those committing the hurtful acts or words would be made to stop. Often we imagine that we will work hard until we arrive at some distant goal, and then we will be happy. This is a delusion. Happiness is the result of a life lived with purpose. Happiness is not an objective.

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The severely damaged letter was adapted and reconstructed by Ethan Hawke, after the family discovered it in the early 1970s in the basement of the family farm near Waynesville, Ohio after his great-grandmother passed away. This book contains a number of “rules for a knight,”which are lessons on how to live better. For example, 1) neverannounce that you are a knight, simply behave as one and 2) theonly intelligent response to the ongoing gift of life is gratitude, and 3) how a knight lives is what is important, not on which particular afternoon he was born or on which specific morning he might die. Along with many other insights. Rules for a Knight summary Each one of us is walking our own road. We are born at specific times, in specific places, and our challenges are unique. As knights, understanding and respecting our distinctiveness is vital to our ability to harness our collective strength. The use of force may be necessary to protect in an emergency, but only justice, fairness, and cooperation can truly succeed in leading men. We must live and work together as brothers or perish together as fools.

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