quixotic
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 4:27 pm
by M. Henri Day
Some four hundred years ago, a certain Señor Miguel de Cervantes published
El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, (the first part of) one of the world's greatest novels. Though I am sure that the adjective could never be applied to anyone connected in any way with the
Agora, what better way to celebrate this literary quadricentennial than to choose the eponym as
GWotD ?...
Henri
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 4:25 pm
by William
I find myself in agreement with you, Henri. What a great suggestion!
As for quixotism (new word maybe?) among agorists/agorans, are there none here who have ever seen a "windmill" and thought it was a monster, or a "barber's bowl" and thought it was a golden helmet?
William
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 7:09 am
by M. Henri Day
I find myself in agreement with you, Henri. ...
As for quixotism (new word maybe?) among agorists/agorans, are there none here who have ever seen a "windmill" and thought it was a monster, or a "barber's bowl" and thought it was a golden helmet?
Thanks
William ! I wonder if the monsters we tilt at today look more like this :
than Don Quixote's, which presumably resembled this :
Henri