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Baja Bernie
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[*] posted on 5-1-2010 at 08:46 PM
Another old man's silliness


Don Quixote


Surely Don Quixote must have
Discovered Baja

Where else may
You joust with windmills

And win

Bernie Swaim




My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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[*] posted on 5-3-2010 at 04:31 PM


keep -em comin Bernie!
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[*] posted on 5-3-2010 at 05:01 PM
Don Quixote is Not a Joke nor is He a Fool


"Quixote has served as an important thematic source not only in literature but in much of art and music, inspiring works by Pablo Picasso and Richard Strauss. The contrasts between the tall, thin, fancy-struck, and idealistic Quixote and the fat, squat, world-weary Panza is a motif echoed ever since the book’s publication, and Don Quixote's imaginings are the butt of outrageous and cruel practical jokes in the novel. Even faithful and simple Sancho is unintentionally forced to deceive him at certain points. The novel is considered a satire of orthodoxy, truth, veracity, and even nationalism. In going beyond mere storytelling to exploring the individualism of his characters, Cervantes helped move beyond the narrow literary conventions of the chivalric romance literature that he spoofed, which consists of straightforward retelling of a series of acts that redound to the knightly virtues of the hero."

[Edited on 5-4-2010 by Gypsy Jan]




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[*] posted on 5-4-2010 at 05:38 PM
Jan


So did I do wrong or what...I love Cervantes and his stories...Look at my books and you will find that Don Quixote is a 'spoofed' work....reading a book as he advances on an ass is my publishing logo.

Life is fun and he makes it so and we all win.




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