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Sorry - thought you were taking aim at my reading abilities. But, in fairness, aim could be rightfully taken at them. No, it just seemed that, as long ago as you first posted this, you would be further along, but it seems you haven't devoted much time to it yet. It is a very difficult book to get i...

Sorry - thought you were taking aim at my reading abilities.

But, in fairness, aim could be rightfully taken at them.

Keep 'em coming. But not to the extent that I will be motivated to follow your path following DQ. :laughhard That's true. I've posted a few duds on here. One of the main reasons for me doing this is that I want to keep track of memorable passages from books. Apparently not memorable enough that I d...

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2026 9:35 pm https://www.ncregister.com/blog/zola-and-lourdes

This is wild. I have never heard this one before. Thanks for sharing.

Doom wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2026 8:50 pm Isn't the windmill incident in the first chapter? It sounds like you haven't gotten that far in it.

Would that bother you?

I read this article when it came out and just thought of it today. In 2014 Michael Shermer was set to marry his German girlfriend, Jennifer Graf. The ceremony was to be held in the States. Jennifer had her wanted belongings sent to Shermer's house. One item in particular, her grandfather's transisto...

I never watched the show entirely. But years back I came across an episode where there was an angry mob outside of Father Brown's church or rectory. Father Brown had some man inside whom the angry mob was demanding that Father Brown release. The mob was saying things like "it doesn't matter how...

To post some of the more hilarious moments... Seeing the windmills, mistaking them for giants, Don Quixote says: "Fortune is directing our affair's even better than we could have wished: for you can see over there, good friend Sancho Panza, a place where stands thirty or more monstrous giants w...

There you go, hermano! I'll match you undergraduate degree with my BA in English Literature, and raise your Master's with a MS in Logistics and a MA in Business Management. OK, since we are talking (and speaking) English, you win. This is predictable, but beautiful. And I have seen just these, in a...

Pretty cute.

I have a tuxedo cat that looks like that little guy.
Sadly though, my cat is in heat and caterwauls at night.

The degree to which Cervantes was genuinely critical of chivalry, rather than merely making fun of the cliches of chivalric literature, is debated. In the first chapter, when describing Don Quixote's library, several real books are mentioned, which Cervantes himself had read. Cervantes quotes from ...

Good for you. I've had a copy of DQ sitting around since I was 18. I've started it about once a decade and never gotten past page two. Maybe the size and language are just too daunting. Your initial reaction is interesting. I cast one vote that you keep us posted. Thanks Highlander. I'll do that. I...

I've just started this book. In the prologue Cervantes is mocking notions of chivalry. Saying how this type of literature led to young men and women being more harmed than helped. Then he goes on to say how writing this prologue is actually harder than writing the actual story. He says he received a...

Doom wrote: ↑Sat Feb 14, 2026 12:36 pm

aussie_aussie_oi_oi wrote: ↑Fri Feb 13, 2026 5:03 pm I know, or know of, hundreds of parents looking after disabled children who have a greater virtue than Chesterton and other authors.

How could you possibly know something like that?

Agreed. That reads more like an axe to grind against the guy.

anawim wrote: ↑Fri Feb 20, 2026 12:36 pm

p.falk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 20, 2026 10:35 am
But the death nail

Death knell. Knell is the slow, methodical, tolling of a bell.

Much obliged!

Highlander wrote: ↑Fri Feb 20, 2026 12:00 pm

p.falk wrote: ↑Wed Feb 18, 2026 9:52 am The only rule: 4 seconds between pops.

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3 seconds? You'll be farming a bunch of old maids.

Come on, live on the edge - add that second!

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen now has over six times as many posts as the Ladies' Room, each one more insightful and thought-provoking than the last. I was about to ask why I don't have rights to view this forum. But then I saw "extraordinary" and that took alittle wind out of my ...

I offer Gray: Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. One doesn't have to know to know. I love this poem. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and dest...

The only rule: 4 seconds between pops.

The Danes (vikings) first recorded attack on England occurs at the monastery at Lindisfarne in 793. It's almost a century later, 878, when King Alfred baptizes Dane leader Guthrum in hopes of quelling the Scandinavian persistent desire for attacking the Saxons. It has its successes but it doesn't co...