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On Being A Knight
On Being A Knightby Michael DoyleOf all the characteristics of being a knightIn a courtyard of perpetual lightOne must fast to compose one’s fortitudeIf a knight errant is to bear right attitudeForward, the procession movesTo find Don Quixote and then … Continue reading
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Tagged Being A Knight, Brave, Characteristics, Compose, Courtyard, Curse, Don Quixote, Duel, Enchantment, Fortitude, Hearts, Hope, Knight Errant, Perpetual Light, Poetry and Poems, Procession, Right Attitude, Stone, Tortured Verse
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Held In Silence
Held In Silenceby Michael DoyleDarling, I’ve learned to love youBut somehow hate you moreDarling,I could never be without youBut trust me, I know the scoreThe traces may be coldFrom the fenced goods soldAll the secrets circled roundTo the treasures; they … Continue reading
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Tagged Answers, Darkness, Darling, Don Quixote, Fenced Goods, Found, Grieving Widow, Harshness, Hate, Held, Hope, Light, Lonely Mother, Love, Night, Poetry and Poems, Pray Alone, Right, Score, Scream, Secrets, Sense, Silence, Squeeze, Startlled, Traces, Trust, Understand, Violence, Without
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Implausibly Transformative
In dreaming the impossible Dream, the man from La Mancha sallied forth to defeat his quests and earn the love of his lady fair. Or umm something like that…. Part II of Part I of the book summed up … Continue reading
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Tagged Antiquity, Beating, Belong, Castle, Certainty, Clear, Confidence, Crumble, Dedicate, Desire, Determined, Don Quixote, Doubting Thomas, Eye, False Promise, Grandness, Heart, Hero, Home, Implausible, Impossible Dream, Inn, Journey, Knight, Left, Light, Love, Madness, Man From La Mancha, Marvel, Mind, Mystical, Need, Nobility, Noble, Passion, Photograph, Play Along, Poem, Poetry, Poor Pounded Knight, Practical, Pure, Quest, Read, Real, Real World, Right, Safe, Sancho Pancho, Sight, Spiritual, Squire, Stumble, Test, Tranformative, Truth, Twinkle, Urgent, Vigil, Western History, World
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Don Quixote Reexamined
A hidalgo or minor nobleman gets so lost in his reading that he mistakes folklore regarding chivalry as the path of history that will lead him and through him the world to greater nobility. The intention being good. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Account, Admonishment, Beautiful, Borrowed Time, Cervantes, Chivalry, Comic, Complexity, Correct, Don Quixote, Embrace, Examine, Excess, Fantasies, Fiction, Folklore, Folly, Good Magic, Hidalgo, History, Human Mind, Intention, Journey, Knight Errant, Lady, Laughter, Lent, Life, Literary, Mad, Man, Moments, Musical, Name, Nobility, Nobleman, Pages, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practicalities, Practice, Preach, Railing, Reach, Read, Reading, Real, Reveal, Sad, Sally, Sights, Simplicity, Spent, Substance, Tales, Tear, Tragic, Understand, Unique, Utterances, Wrong Conclusions
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Tilting Mental Windmills
On bad days, I awake wondering if maybe Don Quixote wasn’t on to something in his belief of pursuing impossible dreams. Other days, I dare to dream these. Tilting Mental Windmills by Michael Romani Captured frames from your window Map … Continue reading
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Tagged Answers, Awake, Better, Beyond, Blink, Blur, Bound, Brain Fog, Brave, Brave New World, Cherish, Collaborator, Cornucopia, Corridor, Curious, Cut, Dare, Daze, Deception, Decisions, Don Quixote, Door, Early, Embrace, Everyone, Experience, Fear, Feeling, Feign, Flow, Fragments, Frames, Glory, Grip, Hands, Hope, Humanity, Impossible Dreams, Join, Kung Fu, Last, Late, Learn, Life, Life After Death, Lose, Map, Mental, Mind, Moment, Musician, Pain, Perception, Photograph, Plead, Poems, Poetry, Pose, Preference, Puzzle, Riff, Story, Subject, Surly, Tears, Thrill, Tilt, Time, Together, Too Far, Twenty First Century, Walk, Will, Win, Windmills, Window, Wonder, World
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding died on October 8, 1754 Henry Fielding lived from April 22, 1707 until October 8, 1754. During his life, this Englishman was a novelist and playwright known for his earthy satire and as the author of Tom Jones. As … Continue reading
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Tagged Cervantes, Classic Literature, Comedy, Don Quixote, Epic, Harvard Classics, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews, Novel, Odyssey, Picaresque, Preface, Prose, Tom Jones
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Don Quixote – Cervantes
At least once in his life, William Faulkner said that he read Don Quixote once a year like some folks read the Bible. It seems an interesting coincidence that the day I stumble across a Faulkner quote used as … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Cervantes, Comedy, Don Quixote, Harvard Classics, Knight, Man From La Mancha
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – Don Quixote – Cervantes
Cervantes was ransomed from Moorish slavery on September 19, 1580. Don Quixote is also know by its full title The Ingenious Nobleman Mister Quixote of La Mancha. It is the Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra which was published in … Continue reading
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Tagged Chivalry, Don Quixote, Harvard Classics, Knight, La Mancha, Moors, Novel, Sancho Panza, Slavery, Spanish Golden Age
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