How we cite our quotes: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph.)
Quote #7
I was telling you how [Pellinore] killed King Lot one day, when they were having a practice. It has created a great deal of ill-feeling. The Orkney children have sworn to revenge their father's death, and they are out on the warpath for poor Pellinore's blood. (K.4.36)
All Hatfield-McCoy feuds have to start somewhere, and the Pellinore-Orkney feud starts with a simple accident. Pellinore did not mean to kill Lot, but the bloody vengeance doesn't stop until his son, Algovale, listens to Arthur at the end of the Grail Quest, and refuses to carry on the quarrel any longer.
Quote #8
"He was a brute," said the lady.
"Whatever he was, he was fond of his brother." (K.7.145-146)
Lancelot here recognizes that even brutes need brotherly love. Although Sir Turquine is flat-out crazy, he loves his brother (Sir Carados) enough to want to risk his life avenging his death.
Quote #9
Under the grotesque, magnificent shell with a face like Quasimodo's, there was shame and self-loathing which had been planted there when he was tiny, by something which it is now too late to trace. It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible. (K.10.15)
Who planted this notion in Lancelot's noggin? We never find out, but it's hinted that it was someone in his family. This level of self-loathing requires lots of time to cultivate, so it was probably a family member or very close friend. Who might be some prime candidates?