#23: Carpet Knight

This week the Cru explores the concept of the Carpet Knight! From doomed quests of old to modern day carpet installation, we’ve got a great lineup of four stories to satisfy your thirst for a good tale. We also discuss Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian and the use of violence in literature. From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Carpet Knight. A knight dubber at court by favour, not having won his spurs by military service in the field.  The expression may have arisen from the fact that non-military knighthoods were conferred 'on the carpet', rather than 'in the field', or else allude to the attachment shown to the carpeted drawing room by non-martial knights.  By extension the term came to apply disparagingly to any soldier who spends his life away from battle or to any idler in general.Like this weeks episode and wish you could read as well as listen? Subscribe to our Substack for a summary of our opening discussion, a story from the episode, and a writing prompt!  Be sure to follow us on Instagram (if that's your sort of thing). Please do send us an email with your story if you write along, which we hope you will do. Episodes of Radio FreeWrite are protected by a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) license. All Stories remain the property of their respective authors.