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[ghassan]

hi lucia!<br>You are so right about what you said of Don Quixote, at least he was happy! this reminds me of a say that says "Ignorance is a Bliss." and being living his dreams, he was the happiest. In the village I come from, an old man in his 80's thinks he is 30 and is looking for a bride to get married. All the girls he finds are in their early 20's, and he adores talkng about that. I just hope he keeps that faith and never gets dissapointed. Don Quixote is an amzing story, though so funny, its also so deep and strong appealing.

[Lucía]

First of all I´m disapointed to find out no one wrote anything here about this great novel.<br>Don Quixote is the best book of all Literature. Not only because all the narratives elements such as the diferent narrators, the characters, etc. But also for wath Cervantes wanted to say. He not only wanted to satiriced all the novels of his time but he said very important things about the human been. I don´t like when people pitty him because he was mad, he wasn´t sad or had a horrible life, he was happy in his fantastic world, why feel sorry for him? he was more happy than anyone in this world, after all he said: Se quien soy y lo que puedo llegar a ser. <br>Sorry for all the spelling and gramatic mistakes, my english is not so good.<br>I´m from Argentina and this book is really the best in spanish lenguaje

[entroffic]

Just before his Bolivian misadventure, in his last letter to his parents, Che Guevarra claimed to be repping' The Don in a jocular aside about remounting his Rocinante. So what ... well, as an Argentinian, would you care to reflect on the Quixotic types (though certainly not Guevarraists) of the political movements of recent hist (the 1st decade of the 21st C) who've gained it seems lasting noteriaty and political longevity since the insurrections of the picketeros, and upheavals of 2001? You see dreamlike literary possibilities in the ethical notion of "walking", maybe as in a walk to get grounded in new political experiences? I only read some indymedia blogs and a collection of interviews by Sitrinfrom AK Press, called Horizontalism. Have you heard of any of this stuff? A phrase that came to mind as Sancho bent over the knocked out Knight after the sheep battle: at play in the fields of the Lord. Where's that from? Anyway, Ludic forms (Huizinga) of social response might be mean and cynical or even lead to martyredom and terrorism. I see the Argentine radicals of the non-party popular movements after a kind of play-spirit to which the Liberal Cervantes was inspired and seemed to advocate. He was, really a soldier, a believer and while not an appologist, an heir to the recent Castillano expulsion of the national minorities/foreign nationals and so he knew the bloody side of such as Don Quixote held to be principles and political aims, though judiciously vague about just what one might aim for. Some have specualated that he was influenced by the New Christianity that would later animate the San Simonians, Liberal adventurist Girabaldi, Fourier ... I dunno', but Cervantes probably wasn't an anarchist, keep it real. I'm a San Francisco dude.