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''Floating Down to Camelot'' is a campus novel by David Benedictus published in 1985 and set in Cambridge. The title is drawn from Tennyson's poem ''The Lady of Shalott'', in which while floating down to Camelot the Lady of Shalott apparently dies of a broken heart, caused by the rejection of Sir Lancelot. Benedictus began to write the novel while he was a fellow commoner at Churchill College, Cambridge, and a Judith E. Wilson visiting Fellow in the University.〔''Floating Down to Camelot'' (1985), introduction, at p. 6〕 ==Principal characters== *Bill, a Cambridge undergraduate, believes in free will, but suffers from extreme poverty. *Helen, an impressionable Cambridge student of English literature. *Lance, an American reading Natural Sciences. *John, a Cambridge don who teaches determinism but who suffers from randomness in his own life. *Gillian, John's wife, who sees signs of divine intervention even in the game of Scrabble.〔''Floating Down to Camelot'' (1985), p. 96〕 *Olaf, who always wears beige - "wool or tweed or synthetics, but always beige".〔''Floating Down to Camelot'' (1985), p. 93〕 *Buzz, also known as 'The Duck'.〔''Floating Down to Camelot'' (1985), p. 218〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Floating Down to Camelot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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