The First Part of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quijote of La Mancha famously comes to an abrupt termination:
"On, then, as we have said, came Don Quijote against the Biscayan, with uplifted sword, firmly resolved to split him in half. On his side the Biscayan waited for him sword in hand and protected by his cushion. All present stood trembling, anxiously waiting the result of the blows that threatened to fall, while the lady in the coach and the rest of her following were making a thousand vows and offerings to all the images and shrines in Spain, that God might deliver her squire [the Biscayan] and all of them from the great peril into which they found themselves.
"But at this point of crisis, the author of the history leaves the battle in suspense, spoiling the whole episode. The excuse he offers is that he could find nothing more written about these achievements of Don Quijote than what has already been told..."
...and that - Oh, come on! - he was going to Tokyo - yes, Tokyo! - for an "intermission" in order to "be now here". Further, while shamelessly flattering "the only people" he "worries about", the ones "who make comments on the site," he mistakenly and preposterously claims "they'll understand".
In the name of Literature, and Readers of the Same, I demand an Inquiry into this malicious and reprehensible abrogation of the sacred and fiduciary trust of the Reader-Writer compact!
Please sign the Change.org petition "Stop, Save, Ban, Grant, Oppose, etc., the Ruben Bix Tokyo Intermission Be Now Here Blasphemy”
Yes, people are forever comparing me to Cervantes. Is it some quality in my prose or merely the goatee? I’ve contacted change dot org and have been informed that the petition to demand, etc., etc. has leveled off over these past ten hours at one vote. This does not suggest that I need to rush to the airport. Oddly, the subject of Don Quixote came up only yesterday when I asked why the discount chain here in Tokyo is named that: i.e. Don Quixote (Donki). Nobody seemed to know. I haven’t been in one yet but apparently they have “everything.” I read the famous novel when I was in high school, not assigned mind you, completely voluntarily, and I wish I still had my handsome penguin paperback with the painting by Daumier on the cover of DQ riding Rocinante. I don’t recall the interruption in the battle you reference but I remember that, besides being long and desultory, Don Q is a very funny book. My favorite part was when Sancho Panza somehow becomes a judge. So hilarious when his righteously correct judgments so completely defy the reader’s expectations! I’d like to pull off something like that… Defy the reader’s expectations, I mean. Maybe this interruption will be even longer than I planned…
You never know...what goes around, comes around.
The First Part of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quijote of La Mancha famously comes to an abrupt termination:
"On, then, as we have said, came Don Quijote against the Biscayan, with uplifted sword, firmly resolved to split him in half. On his side the Biscayan waited for him sword in hand and protected by his cushion. All present stood trembling, anxiously waiting the result of the blows that threatened to fall, while the lady in the coach and the rest of her following were making a thousand vows and offerings to all the images and shrines in Spain, that God might deliver her squire [the Biscayan] and all of them from the great peril into which they found themselves.
"But at this point of crisis, the author of the history leaves the battle in suspense, spoiling the whole episode. The excuse he offers is that he could find nothing more written about these achievements of Don Quijote than what has already been told..."
...and that - Oh, come on! - he was going to Tokyo - yes, Tokyo! - for an "intermission" in order to "be now here". Further, while shamelessly flattering "the only people" he "worries about", the ones "who make comments on the site," he mistakenly and preposterously claims "they'll understand".
In the name of Literature, and Readers of the Same, I demand an Inquiry into this malicious and reprehensible abrogation of the sacred and fiduciary trust of the Reader-Writer compact!
Please sign the Change.org petition "Stop, Save, Ban, Grant, Oppose, etc., the Ruben Bix Tokyo Intermission Be Now Here Blasphemy”
Yes, people are forever comparing me to Cervantes. Is it some quality in my prose or merely the goatee? I’ve contacted change dot org and have been informed that the petition to demand, etc., etc. has leveled off over these past ten hours at one vote. This does not suggest that I need to rush to the airport. Oddly, the subject of Don Quixote came up only yesterday when I asked why the discount chain here in Tokyo is named that: i.e. Don Quixote (Donki). Nobody seemed to know. I haven’t been in one yet but apparently they have “everything.” I read the famous novel when I was in high school, not assigned mind you, completely voluntarily, and I wish I still had my handsome penguin paperback with the painting by Daumier on the cover of DQ riding Rocinante. I don’t recall the interruption in the battle you reference but I remember that, besides being long and desultory, Don Q is a very funny book. My favorite part was when Sancho Panza somehow becomes a judge. So hilarious when his righteously correct judgments so completely defy the reader’s expectations! I’d like to pull off something like that… Defy the reader’s expectations, I mean. Maybe this interruption will be even longer than I planned…
We profs. all have an annotated list of student gaffs (in writing) two of which are a propos:
youth in asia, and donkey oatey, i.e, the self murder of DQ
Trust you are gobbling up the mochi, JR canned coffee, and sembei
Ha. I went to Japan with a group of other exchange students a long time ago. We thought we invented the “youth in Asia” joke. Maybe not…
I'd take a look at that chair under ultraviolet light first.
I fear Neville is going to a deep, dark place, but not the one he is hoping for.