#donquixote — Public Fediverse posts

Trying to regain blogging momentum, so wrote up a post thinking about Quixote alongside Vollmann's The Ice-Shirt, so far.

https://nearerandfarther.com/notes/first-sentences-23-and-24-don-quixote-the-ice-shirt/

#DonQuixote #WilliamVollmann #TheIceShirt #Bookstodon

"The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" is a #popularSong composed by #MitchLeigh, with lyrics written by #JoeDarion. It was written for the 1965 Broadway musical #ManOfLaMancha and originally performed by that play's star #RichardKiley and featured in the 1972 film of the same name. The complete song is first sung by #DonQuixote as he stands vigil over his armor, in response to Aldonza (#Dulcinea)'s question about what he means by "following the quest".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Oomvnkvco

Cervantes

and his book-length dream

of windmills

#haiku
#Cervantes
#DonQuixote
#dailyhaikuprompt

✨ Revisiting my Japan-based webcomic MORESUKINE for its 20th anniversary✨

Assignment 3️⃣ - rooftop rollercoaster 🎢

For the second time, the mission came from a total stranger. Assignments were beginning to drop in, the system began to work!

First, the positive: I like the ambition in this episode to work with two timelines, signified by differently shaped panels and lettering.

1/2

#comics #webcomics #rollercoasters #dolphins #DonQuixote #actionFigures #BodyFluids #roppongi #wellness

✨ Revisiting my Japan-based webcomic MORESUKINE for its 20th anniversary✨

Assignment 3️⃣ - rooftop rollercoaster 🎢

For the second time, the mission came from a total stranger. Assignments were beginning to drop in, the system began to work!

First, the positive: I like the ambition in this episode to work with two timelines, signified by differently shaped panels and lettering.

1/2

#comics #webcomics #rollercoasters #dolphins #DonQuixote #actionFigures #BodyFluids #roppongi #wellness

"Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing."

-- First sentence of Cervantes, *Don Quixote*

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Started this morning. Reading notes will be tucked in this thread.

#FirstSentences #Cervantes #DonQuixote #Bookstodon #NowReading

Don Quixote – Birmingham Royal Ballet – The Lowry, Salford

Music: Ludwig Minkus, Hans Vercauteren W…
#Birmingham #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Alfie-LeeHall #BeatriceParma #BirminghamRoyalBallet #Britain #CarlosAcosta #DominicAntonucci #DonQuixote #EnriqueBejaranoVidal #GreatBritain #HansVercauteren #LachlanMonaghan #Lowry #LudwigMinkus #MariusPepita #MigueldeCervantes #PeterMumford #RoryMackay #Salford #ThomasJung #TimHatley
https://www.europesays.com/uk/809971/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/809971/ Don Quixote – Birmingham Royal Ballet – The Lowry, Salford #AlfieLeeHall #BeatriceParma #Birmingham #BirminghamRoyalBallet #Britain #CarlosAcosta #DominicAntonucci #DonQuixote #England #EnriqueBejaranoVidal #GreatBritain #HansVercauteren #LachlanMonaghan #Lowry #LudwigMinkus #MariusPepita #MiguelDeCervantes #PeterMumford #RoryMackay #Salford #ThomasJung #TimHatley #UK #UnitedKingdom

“The hours of folly are measur’d by the clock, / But of wisdom: no clock can measure.”*…

Our problems are so vast, our distance from them so great. Benjamin Cohen asks how we navigate our “derangement of scale”?

… Parents say the days are long but the years are short. Sophocles says time eases all things. Thoreau says time is but the stream we go a-fishing in. Einstein tells us time is an illusion. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with that. All of them are right.

A human life can be 70, 80, maybe 90 years. The tuataras, a New Zealand reptile, can live to be 100, as can a crocodile. A Seychelles giant tortoise can live close to 200 years. Sea animals have us all beat. Bowhead whales can live past 200 years. For some sea urchin species, it’s 300. The ocean quahog clam can live past 500. On the other end are insects. An adult dragonfly might live a week. Shadflies, also called mayflies or fishflies, live just a day or two.

Geological time has an entirely different range of long and short. My friend studies ice cores from millions of years ago, examining glacial variation to better understand how climates change. The Pleistocene, Pliocene, Miocene. These are epochs, an official scientific term for a measure of time—less than a period, more than an age. Epochs span millions of years. They put our biological lifespans to shame. We are shadflies to the sandstone sediment of the Miocene.

Our current epoch, scientists argue, is called the Anthropocene. It’s new. The term comes from Paul J. Crutzen, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist who wrote that “human activities are exerting increasing impacts on the environment on all scales”—impacts so profound that we created an entirely new stamp on the timeline. The Anthropocene is a commentary on our scales of time as well as space. It isn’t just how old things are or how long they take, but how big they are and how vast their dimensions are. 

I’ll admit a little hesitancy for the concept. It’s an audacious move, to declare the dawn of a new epoch from within; I’m not sure if there’s a bit too much modern exceptionalism at work. But I also can’t say the full scientific validity matters for me. Say what you will about the Anthropocene, but I nod to it for trying to gauge what’s so strange and difficult about our moment. It is the relationship between biological generations and geological epochs, between the scope of mortal activity and that of global planetary activity. It is all scales everywhere all at once.

Understanding the significance of our own lives requires some understanding of scale. “Just as the microscope and telescope extended our vision into spatial realms once too minuscule or too immense for us to see, geology provides a lens through which we can witness time in a way that transcends the limits of our human experiences,” Marcia Bjornerud, a geologist, writes. The Anthropocene, she suggests, is a fine time to “adopt a geologic respect for time and its capacity to transfigure, destroy, renew, amplify, erode, propagate, entwine, innovate, and exterminate.” We need to know how to navigate our epoch: to recognize our profusion of scales and strive to understand, amidst their collisions, not just how to care for the world beyond us but how a person can be, what it means to stand as a morally vested individual. 

And yet we humans are still not particularly good at seeing ourselves in time or space. I’m certainly not. So here we are. Not only has our age come face to face with an emergency of scalar challenges—brashly called a global climate crisis—but we have produced a daunting sense of distance from addressing it. The problems are physically too far away, too large, too vast; the psychological distance we feel from addressing them is too great. It’s a double-distancing. Hopelessness comes from the scalar mismatch between we individuals, who are wee individuals, and the problems of an 8,000-mile-diameter earth. 

All of this was on my mind when I first met Robert Socolow [here], an 88-year-old physicist who, over the course of his life, turned to environmental science and technology to help humanity respond to our most complex challenges of scale. One of those efforts has been with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, where Socolow helps with their Doomsday Clock. That’s the device that, since 1947, tracks humanity’s proximity to self-destruction. The clock is a metaphor, presuming to measure Blake’s hours of folly by minute and second hand; the hands are set by “nuclear risk, climate change, disruptive technologies, and biosecurity,” among other concerns. They’ve changed positions 26 times in the decades since they began metaphorically ticking. Since 2010, the clock’s hands have only moved closer to midnight. 

In 2025, Socolow himself revealed the face of the clock at a press conference in Washington, DC. It was January and he was at the US Institute of Peace in Foggy Bottom. With a crowd of reporters looking on, cameras flashing and shutters digitally clicking, Socolow stood by a modernist wooden stand and spun a turntable to reveal the clock hands at a small, acute angle against midnight. A world of scalar challenges fell into an urgent sort of order. The end was 89 seconds away.

Most of us are daunted, every day, by the vastness of planetary activity and the proximity of our personal choices. We look at the clock, unsure how to balance clashing scopes of time and space. But if I’m unsettled, I want proximity to settle me. I want to be close, I want to feel part of the world I inhabit and see and feel, I want to hold those I love near to me. So what should we do?…

… The confusion may come from what the writer Timothy Clark calls “derangements of scale.” Our experiences as modern global humans, Clark writes, are like being “lost in a small town” and then handed a map of the entire earth for locating yourself and finding your way. In the Anthropocene, he writes, “we have a map, [and] its scale includes the whole earth, but when it comes to relating the threat to daily questions of politics, ethics, or specific interpretations of history, culture, literature, etc., the map is often almost mockingly useless.” Our scales are too imbalanced; we are unable to think the unthinkable. It goes without saying that it can be paralyzing, demoralizing, to be an individual acting as part of the collective, globe-sized world…

[Cohen shares his conversations with Socolow, with call-outs to Tolstoy, Camus, Augustine, and Solnit…]

… The attempt to capture our smallness inside the grandness of the universe is a timeless human quest, I get that. Tolstoy’s theological view is a typical one; God is that which is without scale. Even if I’m not so theological about it, I share the modern anxiety. And that anxiety is currently a dominant emotion. 

Clark writes that “deranged jumps in scale and fantasies of agency may recall rhetoric associated with the atomic bomb in the 1950s and after.” After talking to Socolow a number of times, I don’t think it recalls so much as continues that rhetoric. The new atomic age was a test case for the coming collisions of scale that derange us now. The Doomsday Clock was about sounding the alarm. It was meant to shake people, to grab them by the shoulders and yell that they pay attention to human-made catastrophe.

We’ve flipped in the past 50 years, nearly the exact span of my own life. A half century later, and so many people have gone from urgency to hopelessness. They feel bombarded by all scales, not just the next one.

There’s room to reconsider that bombardment. There’s time to think to the next scale. Socolow has been doing it his entire adult life. So were Augustine and Tolstoy and Camus and so is Solnit. It isn’t new, we aren’t alone.

And so Socolow and I stand in his home office, trying to measure. It’s misty outside and calm inside. He is thinking in linear feet of books, where the spatial scale of distance is a proxy for the temporal scale of his life’s work. I’m thinking in years, measuring my sense of contribution and belonging against the shadfly-like limitations of a mere biological lifespan. I’m cautious, excited, gratified that the two of us can talk and compare across the scales of our current lives. That Blake couplet in the epigraph above [title quote] runs through my head. Socolow’s keenly aware of his own place in our epoch. Nearly a hundred linear feet of a life’s work at an archive, and still, as we consider our various measures, he tells me, “I am searching for ways to be constructive, and there are small opportunities here and there so far.” There is wisdom here, even if no clock can measure it…

Eminently worth reading in full: “By All Measures,” from @longreads.com.

* William Blake, “Proverbs of Hell”

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As we take the long view, we might we might rejoice in the naively and nobly inventive: it was on this date in 1605 that El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (or The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha— aka Don Quixote), the masterwork of Miguel de Cervantes (and of the Spanish Golden Age) and a founding work of Western literature, was first published. Widely considered the first modern novel (published in the Western world), it is also considered by many (still) to be the best; it is in any case the second most translated work in the world (after the Bible).

Silly Signs (10 Photos)

https://streetartutopia.com/2026/01/10/silly-signs-10-photos/

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-MagazineOfArt-Vol6/pages/221-don-quixote-in-his-study/

Don Quixote in his study, from an article about the artist, Gustave Doré, in Vol 3 of Cassels Magazine of Art (1883).

It’s become a classic fantasy trope, mythical creatures appearing when someone reads a book, but here is is in the 19th century.

#GustaveDore #Doré #fobo #vintageArt #GIMP #GIMP3 #vintageEngraving #engraving #fantasy #dragon #DonQuixote

#ataurique (kind of), #renaissance
and #DonQuixote #tilework

#tiles #ornament #azulejos #decoration #andalucia #ceramics #Spain #Malaga #art #architecture

Just finished the epic Don Quixote, the Edith Grossman translation. Very entertaining and readable. After a month of being immersed in tales of knights errant I will miss the company of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire Sancho Panza.

#DonQuixote #SanchoPanza #classicliterature #literature #books #MigueldeCervantes #EdithGrossman #chivalry #knightserrant

 Dik Downey of Opposable Thumb Theatre in the opening of his brilliant new solo show "Don Quixote (is a very big book)".

"With a fabulous gallery of puppets and desperate clowning, Dik’s Quixote embarks on surreal, comic adventures"
https://figurifossekleiva.no/event/opposable-thumb-england-don-quixote-is-a-very-big-book/

#OpposableThumbTheatre #DonQuixote #PuppetTheatre #theatre
#figurteater #FigurIFossekleiva #FiF #FossekleivaKultursenter #Berger #Drammen #Norway

 Dik Downey of Opposable Thumb Theatre in the opening of his brilliant new solo show "Don Quixote (is a very big book)".

"With a fabulous gallery of puppets and desperate clowning, Dik’s Quixote embarks on surreal, comic adventures"
https://figurifossekleiva.no/event/opposable-thumb-england-don-quixote-is-a-very-big-book/

#OpposableThumbTheatre #DonQuixote #PuppetTheatre #theatre
#figurteater #FigurIFossekleiva #FiF #FossekleivaKultursenter #Berger #Drammen #Norway

 Dik Downey of Opposable Thumb Theatre in the opening of his brilliant new solo show "Don Quixote (is a very big book)".

"With a fabulous gallery of puppets and desperate clowning, Dik’s Quixote embarks on surreal, comic adventures"
https://figurifossekleiva.no/event/opposable-thumb-england-don-quixote-is-a-very-big-book/

#OpposableThumbTheatre #DonQuixote #PuppetTheatre #theatre
#figurteater #FigurIFossekleiva #FiF #FossekleivaKultursenter #Berger #Drammen #Norway

 Dik Downey of Opposable Thumb Theatre in the opening of his brilliant new solo show "Don Quixote (is a very big book)".

"With a fabulous gallery of puppets and desperate clowning, Dik’s Quixote embarks on surreal, comic adventures"
https://figurifossekleiva.no/event/opposable-thumb-england-don-quixote-is-a-very-big-book/

#OpposableThumbTheatre #DonQuixote #PuppetTheatre #theatre
#figurteater #FigurIFossekleiva #FiF #FossekleivaKultursenter #Berger #Drammen #Norway

 Dik Downey of Opposable Thumb Theatre in the opening of his brilliant new solo show "Don Quixote (is a very big book)".

"With a fabulous gallery of puppets and desperate clowning, Dik’s Quixote embarks on surreal, comic adventures"
https://figurifossekleiva.no/event/opposable-thumb-england-don-quixote-is-a-very-big-book/

#OpposableThumbTheatre #DonQuixote #PuppetTheatre #theatre
#figurteater #FigurIFossekleiva #FiF #FossekleivaKultursenter #Berger #Drammen #Norway

A quotation from Cervantes

I’d be as good a king of my estate as any other King; and being so, I should do as I liked; and doing as I liked, I should take my pleasure; and taking my pleasure, I should be contented; and when one’s content, there’s nothing more to desire; and when there’s nothing more to desire, there’s an end of it.
 
[Tan Rey seria yo de mi estado, como cada uno del suyo: y siendolo, haria lo que quisiesse: y haziendo lo que quisiesse, haria mi gusto: y haziendo mi gusto, estaria contento: y en estando uno contento, no tiene mas que dessear: y no teniendo mas qu essear, acabose.]

Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) Spanish novelist
Don Quixote, Part 1, ch. 50 [Sancho] (1605) [tr. Cohen (1950)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cervantes-miguel-de/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cervantes #donquixote #MiguelDeCervantes #contentment #desire #fulfilment #king #license #power

I invite you to read my poem
"Don Quixote in the Afterlife"

I hope you enjoy it.

Text link:
https://allpoetry.com/poem/17576125-Don-Quixote-in-the-Afterlife-by-Robert-J.-Tiess

#poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #readingcommunity #literature #characters #donquixote #death #heaven #afterlife #adventure #quests #knights #windmills #journeys

Head of Don Quixote de Cervantes
[Polychrome plaster cast]

Ismael Smith
(Barcelona, 1886 - New York, 1972)

#ismaelsmith #donquixote #donquijote
#mnac
#art #artmuseum
#museunacionaldartdecatalunya
#museunacional
#nationalmuseumofart
#nationalpalacemuseum #barcelona #spain

“In other words, life is an attempt to realize one’s own nature in one’s own soul. The man who fails to recognize it as such is hopelessly bewildered by the irrational character of the universe, which he takes to be real; and he cannot but regard it as aimless and absurd. The adventures of his body and mind, with their desires for material and moral well-being, are obviously as foredoomed to disaster as Don Quixote’s. He must be a fool if he struggles on (against inexorable fate) to obtain results which he knows can only end in catastrophe, a climax the more bitter as he clings the more closely to his impossible ideals.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/03/06/in-other-words-life-is-an-attempt-to-realize-ones-own-nature-in-ones-own-soul-the-man-who-fails-to-recognize-it-as-such-is-hopelessly-bewildered-by-the-irrational-character-of-the-universe-wh/

#aFool #absurd #adventures #against #aimless #aleisterCrowley #attempt #body #book #book220 #canOnlyEndIn #catastrophe #climax #clings #desires #disaster #DonQuixote #fails #foredoomed #hopelesslyBewildered #impossibleIdeals #inOtherWords #inexorableFate #irrationalCharacter #knows #LiberAL #liberCCXX #liberLegis #life #man #material #mind #moral #moreBitter #moreClosely #nature #NewComment #obtain #obviously #oneSOwn #quote #real #realize #recognize #regardItAs #results #soul #strugglesOn #TheBookOfTheLaw #universe #WellBeing

“In other words, life is an attempt to realize one’s own nature in one’s own soul. The man who fails to recognize it as such is hopelessly bewildered by the irrational character of the universe, which he takes to be real; and he cannot but regard it as aimless and absurd. The adventures of his body and mind, with their desires for material and moral well-being, are obviously as foredoomed to disaster as Don Quixote’s. He must be a fool if he struggles on (against inexorable fate) to obtain results which he knows can only end in catastrophe, a climax the more bitter as he clings the more closely to his impossible ideals.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/03/06/in-other-words-life-is-an-attempt-to-realize-ones-own-nature-in-ones-own-soul-the-man-who-fails-to-recognize-it-as-such-is-hopelessly-bewildered-by-the-irrational-character-of-the-universe-wh/

#aFool #absurd #adventures #against #aimless #aleisterCrowley #attempt #body #book #book220 #canOnlyEndIn #catastrophe #climax #clings #desires #disaster #DonQuixote #fails #foredoomed #hopelesslyBewildered #impossibleIdeals #inOtherWords #inexorableFate #irrationalCharacter #knows #LiberAL #liberCCXX #liberLegis #life #man #material #mind #moral #moreBitter #moreClosely #nature #NewComment #obtain #obviously #oneSOwn #quote #real #realize #recognize #regardItAs #results #soul #strugglesOn #TheBookOfTheLaw #universe #WellBeing

Normally, my range of interest in musical plays of all sorts begins in the ninetteenth century and ends in the 1950's or very early 1960's at the most, but there are a few exceptions. I have always wanted to see Man of La Mancha, after reading some of Don Quixote at university. Little did I know that none other than Olive Gilbert made a small appearance as the housekeeper in the live performance of the play. I learned this while researching her roles other than those with Ivor Novello. So naturally, this made me want to see it more. But I was expecting to find just the film. I had no idea I would actually find it with the original London cast and dialogue! Yet here it is! This is going to be fun!

youtube.com/watch?v=ZXCmecKvdl…

#DonQuixote #ManOfLaMancha #musical #OliveGilbert #theater #theatre

I’m reading #DonQuixote by #MiguelDeCervantes at the moment and thoroughly enjoying it. Since overhearing a little of it in an audiobook not long ago, I realized that it was not a dry #book at all. There are glimpses of what later authors, like #PGWodehouse and even #TerryPratchett took from it and also characters like #InspectorClouseau show traits of the deluded hero of the book.

#Literature #Art

I've actually had this idea for...almost a year? I have no idea, time and space no longer mean anything to me for a long time. Point is, I've been poking at this for months and I swear to god, Canto 7's final date for premiere is what pushed me to finish this. I came up with this "poster" idea after some time playing Limbus, because as a Puerto Rican, my only associations with Don Quixote up to that point were the novel and our local rum xD;; (https://donq.com/)

Which hey--that's what this is referencing! Limbus' own Don Q rum :3

The image is based on multiple Don Q ads as a result, with the typical Limbus. I hope everyone enjoys it and may we have fun with Canto 7 (stares into the distance)

#NAANfanart #fanArt #videoGame #Limbus #DonQuixote #DonQ #LimbusCompany #Limbus_Company #リンバス #リンバスカンパニー #림버스컴퍼니

#BOTD: Yang Jiang 楊絳 (1911–2016), playwright and translator who produced the first complete #Chinese translation of #DonQuixote #唐吉訶德. Completed in the 1960s, it was confiscated by #RedGuards during the #CulturalRevolution #文化大革命 and only published in 1978. #ModernChina

Back in La Mancha, set 7. 3 of 3

#DonQuixote #LaMancha #TheStain #HorseDander #Retired #Dismounted #Stabled #IComeHereForTheAmbience #WeirdArt #PsychologicalLandscape #ImSureItMustMeanSomething

#DarkArts #DigitalArt #AIAssistedArt #AIArt #WomboDream #StableDiffusion

Back in La Mancha, set 7. 2 of 3

#DonQuixote #LaMancha #TheStain #HorseDander #Retired #Dismounted #Stabled #IComeHereForTheAmbience #WeirdArt #PsychologicalLandscape #ImSureItMustMeanSomething

#DarkArts #DigitalArt #AIAssistedArt #AIArt #WomboDream #StableDiffusion

Back in La Mancha, set 7. 1 of 3

#DonQuixote #LaMancha #TheStain #HorseDander #Retired #Dismounted #Stabled #IComeHereForTheAmbience #WeirdArt #PsychologicalLandscape #ImSureItMustMeanSomething

#DarkArts #DigitalArt #AIAssistedArt #AIArt #WomboDream #StableDiffusion

Don Quixote on the universal experience of finding yourself facing an unbalanced encounter.

#ttrpg #DnD #ClassicLit #DonQuixote

#coventgarden #royalballet #donquixote Just seen the most joyous and glorious classical ballet I have ever seen! A truly wonderful Don Quixote by the amazing dancers of the Royal Ballet! 🥰🥰

Wonderfully written #Obituary on translator Edith Grossman, 1936-2023

“Gabriel García Márquez’s previous work had been translated by the brilliant Gregory Rabassa; but in the mid-1980s, Grossman was offered the job of recreating his latest. This translation was Love in the Time of Cholera (1988), and #Grossman would remain #GarcíaMárquez’s translator till his death 26 years later.

#donquixote #EdithGrossman
@FinancialTimes
https://www.ft.com/content/ca347c84-2f00-4ba1-a2da-e8a63bbf4e7e

Damnit! These signs keep ruining my weekend plans!

#weirdsigns #fridayfeeling #friday #windmill #tilting #donquixote #humor #humour #Funny

quintessential costly myth I live tilting windmills

#monoku
#575Prompt @aethelshane #costly
#MastoPrompt #quintessential
#DailyHaikuPrompt #windmill
#Haiku #Senyru #FreeHaiku @freehaiku
#GustaveDoré #DonQuixote

Illustration by Gustave Doré

quintessential costly myth I live tilting windmills

#monoku
#575Prompt @aethelshane #costly
#MastoPrompt #quintessential
#DailyHaikuPrompt #windmill
#Haiku #Senyru #FreeHaiku @freehaiku
#GustaveDoré #DonQuixote

Illustration by Gustave Doré

Just watched the movie Rango again. That's really a terrific movie. I ended up buying it on Amazon Prime because I like to watch it from time to time.

The first time I watched it I had just reread Don Quixote, and I found the novel a good lens through which to view the movie.

#Rango #movies #DonQuixote

Rereading Don Quixote

Don Quixote presents a prism that, rather than refracting white light into its component colors, refracts one's view of the world into a range of reality and fantasy, a range that has multiple gradations (or colors or layers).

I read it in college, then listened to an audiobook of the Edith Grossman translation years later. I think it's time to rereread it.

My blog posts about the book and some of what i see in it:

https://leisureguy.wordpress.com/?s=quixote

#Quixote #DonQuixote #books

Lots of #BernardCribbins on #BBCSounds right now. I’d especially recommend the 2-part #DonQuixote adaptation with Bernard as Sancho Panza:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007k0d1

In the preface of #DonQuixote the narrator claims to have found the story written in Arabic on scrap that was going to a silk dealer in Toledo. That is the book was part of the great wave of Arabic and Hebrew books that were turned into scrap after the #explusion #Mazeldon

Gustave Doré probably spotted that hidden head many years before I found it.

Segments from:
※ Left: Illustration Plate I (mirror view) by #GustaveDoré to chapter 1 in #MiguelDeCervantes’ #DonQuixote, 1863 edition.
※ Right: "Temptation of St Anthony" by #MatthiasGrünewald (c. between 1512 and 1516, a panel of the #IsenheimAltarpiece, now located at #MuseéUnterlinden, Colmar, France).

https://snrk.de/monstrous-heads/

#MatthiasGruenewald #TemptationOfStAnthony #HiddenImages #GustaveDoré #pareidolia

"The classic example of subjectivity is Don Quixote. The first time he made a helmet, he tested its capacity for resisting blows, and battered it out of shape ; next time he did not test it, but “deemed” it to be a very good helmet. This habit of “deeming” dominated his life."
#BertrandRussel on the #DonQuixote #method of #subjectivity #deeming
https://russell-j.com/beginner/OE16-070.HTM

"... there are probably but two methods of thought: the #method of #LaPalisse and the method of #DonQuixote. Solely the balance between evidence and lyricism can allow us to achieve simultaneously emotion and lucidity... " #AlbertCamus #Myth of #Sisyphus #DamningWithFaintPraise #truisms and #deeming