One reason why I never got around to reading Cervantes is that I went down a deep Samuel Beckett rabbit hole in my senior year in college. Thanks for typing this passage. Now I have a temptation that I don't have to feel guilty about succumbing to. Do English translations typically have footnotes that explain the wordplays like "costillos"? I read Spanish, but not enough to try the whole book in the original language. If you have a favorite translation, especially if it has footnotes, I'm all ears.
and, there lies the rub.....it's all a matter of perspective! In some negotiations, something is better than nothing......most often, it's pride that's the deciding factor! As some wise person said a long time ago: You can't eat pride!
That's great! Thanks Celia. Of course whenever I think of Cervantes I always think of Sir Francis Bacon, who, it is long rumored, was the actual author.
I am a Spaniard and I have to say that that "long rumor" would be borderline insulting if it weren't nonsensical and ridiculous. It amazes me how XVIth century English jealousy of Spanish Heritage still lingers. Get over it already!
Wow! Nationalize much? This is a typical response from someone that knows very little of Bacon. In my opinion (if this were true) it would actually be a homage to Spain - which Bacon loved. Not only did he live a few years in Spain in his youth but mastered different dialects of the language such as Catalan and Andalusian. Bacon was fluent in at least 8 languages including possibly Mandarin. But again - I don't know if this Cervantes thing is true, just relating that others do. Paz!
I have also transcribed a lot of Baroque literature (in my archive), and can tell you from experience that it will ruin your spelling. And, the more connection one has with the literature of the past, the lesser the connection to emerging works. I can never read anything new anymore. It's like staring out of the back of a caboose and wanting to see farther back into the past, but the train is always moving farther away from the view of our binoculars.
“Stop that now and find strength in weakness, Sancho..” “Further, I shall not consider such a mount a dishonor, because I remember reading that when Silenus, the good old tutor and teacher of the merry god of laughter, entered the city of one hundred gates, he rode very happily mounted on a beautiful jackass.”
All this in imitation of Christ (the true Merry God of Laughter, the One who has undone the cruelty of the world) entering Jerusalem, his humility teasing pride, of course.
via Wiki: Rocinante is Don Quixote's horse. In many ways, Rocinante is not only Don Quixote's horse, but also his double; like Don Quixote, he is awkward, past his prime, and engaged in a task beyond his capacities.
“Stop that now and find strength in weakness, Sancho..” “Further, I shall not consider such a mount a dishonor, because I remember reading that when Silenus, the good old tutor and teacher of the merry god of laughter, entered the city of one hundred gates, he rode very happily mounted on a beautiful jackass.”
All this in imitation of Christ entering Jerusalem, of course.
Hilarious! Give us more! I love Don Quijote!
Fabulous - and timeless. I read it in Spanish many many years ago.
It did me good to read it.
One reason why I never got around to reading Cervantes is that I went down a deep Samuel Beckett rabbit hole in my senior year in college. Thanks for typing this passage. Now I have a temptation that I don't have to feel guilty about succumbing to. Do English translations typically have footnotes that explain the wordplays like "costillos"? I read Spanish, but not enough to try the whole book in the original language. If you have a favorite translation, especially if it has footnotes, I'm all ears.
As true today as when written!
Lovely
and, there lies the rub.....it's all a matter of perspective! In some negotiations, something is better than nothing......most often, it's pride that's the deciding factor! As some wise person said a long time ago: You can't eat pride!
That's great! Thanks Celia. Of course whenever I think of Cervantes I always think of Sir Francis Bacon, who, it is long rumored, was the actual author.
I am a Spaniard and I have to say that that "long rumor" would be borderline insulting if it weren't nonsensical and ridiculous. It amazes me how XVIth century English jealousy of Spanish Heritage still lingers. Get over it already!
I thought it was a joke. The English don't even believe that their own great writers like Shakespeare actually wrote their own works. :D
I should have taken it with a grain of salt, really ;) thanks
I still feel compelled to check it out!
Wow! Nationalize much? This is a typical response from someone that knows very little of Bacon. In my opinion (if this were true) it would actually be a homage to Spain - which Bacon loved. Not only did he live a few years in Spain in his youth but mastered different dialects of the language such as Catalan and Andalusian. Bacon was fluent in at least 8 languages including possibly Mandarin. But again - I don't know if this Cervantes thing is true, just relating that others do. Paz!
Catalan isn't a dialect of Spanish. Just saying.
Mea culpa! I meant Castilian.
I have also transcribed a lot of Baroque literature (in my archive), and can tell you from experience that it will ruin your spelling. And, the more connection one has with the literature of the past, the lesser the connection to emerging works. I can never read anything new anymore. It's like staring out of the back of a caboose and wanting to see farther back into the past, but the train is always moving farther away from the view of our binoculars.
Yes ...so funny.
As the morons are- at this moment blandishing the "vaccine" around at mothers of small children.
So, may I be blunt?
THESE MONSTERS--whoever, wherever they may be--WISH TO MURDER CHILDREN.
The toxic mRNA platform will now be used in all childhood "vaccines"....
Our children will die young with auto-immune toxicity caused by the "spike" causing
autoimmune disease....their lives will be short and plagued with disease.
“Stop that now and find strength in weakness, Sancho..” “Further, I shall not consider such a mount a dishonor, because I remember reading that when Silenus, the good old tutor and teacher of the merry god of laughter, entered the city of one hundred gates, he rode very happily mounted on a beautiful jackass.”
All this in imitation of Christ (the true Merry God of Laughter, the One who has undone the cruelty of the world) entering Jerusalem, his humility teasing pride, of course.
via Wiki: Rocinante is Don Quixote's horse. In many ways, Rocinante is not only Don Quixote's horse, but also his double; like Don Quixote, he is awkward, past his prime, and engaged in a task beyond his capacities.
“Stop that now and find strength in weakness, Sancho..” “Further, I shall not consider such a mount a dishonor, because I remember reading that when Silenus, the good old tutor and teacher of the merry god of laughter, entered the city of one hundred gates, he rode very happily mounted on a beautiful jackass.”
All this in imitation of Christ entering Jerusalem, of course.
..Dick Smith is a Prick..
Cervantes and La Manca Man
Put chocolate-chips in ANZAC Biscuits
But Sancho Panza in his dotage
Grinned and called them Donkey Oaties: