And what a nightmare that would be! Thus the possibility of adventures is the element most carefully tended by authors of romance. The technique of interlace provided that no one adventure in the Vulgate Cycle would end without another remaining in the balance. Malory's de-interlaced version keeps the possibility alive by means of architectural innovation and strategically oblique prophecy. In either method, theoretically, the necessary conditions for adventure can be maintained world without end. Even so, whether in Malory or in the Vulgate, there is a structural point at which Arthurian adventure must disappear, and that point is the conclusion of the Lancelot-and-Guinevere drama. That conclusion may be considered either the demise of the characters themselves, or the deadly malaise which permeates the Mort Artu generally; one could also speculate from this point as to the end of the genre itself. In any case it is the era beyond which Arthurian narrative may not progress. Accordingly, the author of the French Mort provides for the non-continuation of the story so that it might not be amended: