after-dark
02-29-2008, 02:37 PM
March Challenge - Don Quixote (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote) - go for it! :w00t:
chris974
03-01-2008, 09:24 AM
oh nice choice. I have a big copy of Don Quixote with Gustave Dore's illustrations, its great.
Jayde
03-01-2008, 10:59 AM
Hmmm....don't know about this one :thinking:
Oh! Oh! Oh! I did some cartoons based on the a comic side of the knight Don Quixote. Now which disc are they on?!:doh:
After reading Don Quixote I was fixated on puns for some reason so I came up with these and a few others. One is called 'knight fall' and the other is a 'knight in splendor' I didn't say they were good lol:blink:
hahaha these are great Brid! I don't know which one I like best -
Love the look on the horses face ! Thanks for the laugh.
RonPrice
03-07-2008, 06:50 PM
Middle-aged and unsuccessful, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra started writing Don Quixote in the late 1500s — some say during one of his several spells in prison. At the time Shakespeare was finishing his Sonnets. The first of Don Quixote’s two volumes went on sale on January 16th 1605.
Four hundred years later in January 2005 my own 1800 page Don Quixote was getting its final touches. It could be said that Cervantes’ novel is really about how people approach life and reality. My own autobiographical work deals with this same subject with a particular focus on Baha’i perspectives.
People like me are still sitting around trying to write new articles on Don Quixote 400 years after its initial publication. Part of the beauty of this book is that it lends itself to so much examination and reexamination. It's so rich, so full of ideas. I would like to think this is true of my own 1800 page work. Quixotic means impractical and idealistic, extravagantly visionary even romantic. These adjectives have often been applied to me and my ideals.
The first volume of Cervantes’ Don Quixote was published when he was 57. This was also the case with my work-published on the internet. After three years I got my first royalties cheque for this book at eBookMall. The cheque was for $1.49. The remunerative side of my work is not looking good. Both Cervantes’ book and mine could be said to be about the getting of wisdom. -Ron Price, Pioneering Over Four Epochs, September 19th 2005.
Citizen of the world you were
so far back, part of a universal
literature wherein I can live
intimately with two elements
of human nature: soul and sense,
poetry and prose,1 that impossible,
that epic, dream, that invincible foe.
For my work and my life are both:
part of an impossible dream,
a journey in prose and poetry,
seemingly impractical, idealistic,
extravagantly visionary—romantic,
containing a certain element of absurdity,
of the bizarre, of madness, of humour,
a quintessential sanity and an awareness
of my concupiscible, irascible inclinations
and stages of my soul: inspiration, benevolence,
contentment and divine good-pleasure.
1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge said Don Quixote personifies these two elements.
Ron Price
September 19th 2005:thumbup1:
Updated for AAF
7/2/'08