12.13.2005

Quixote

If you're curious, yes we're still reading Don Quixote, and yes, it's been a LONG time. We get about 4 chapters read per week (try 1 per night, but out loud is slow, and some nights are impossible). Given there are scores of chapters in part 2 alone, you see the dilemma.

It's rather Monty Python-esque in parts. In fact, I'm convinced they got a lot of their material from Cervantes. And there is some decent philosophical substance relating to how our dreams and/or ideals relate to reality, and how our reason facilitates that relationship. In other words, our minds both dream up an ideal world and simultaneously cope with reality. Putting the two together can strain the reasoning faculties (often to the point of insanity) and sometimes be, well, quixotic.

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