Jim Baird Posted November 10, 2012 Report Share Posted November 10, 2012 Seen today on inspection visit. Plaque over door. Interior view. Two owls left out when door opened. No sign of Dulcinea tho. Click to Enlarge 53.2?KB Click to Enlarge 77.89?KB Click to Enlarge 64.64?KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkenney Posted November 11, 2012 Report Share Posted November 11, 2012 No sign of Dulcinea tho. "Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind." Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Baird Posted November 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2012 "... her name is Dulcinea, her country El Toboso, a village of La Mancha, her rank must be at least that of a princess, since she is my queen and lady, and her beauty superhuman, since all the impossible and fanciful attributes of beauty which the poets apply to their ladies are verified in her; for her hairs are gold, her forehead Elysian fields, her eyebrows rainbows, her eyes suns, her cheeks roses, her lips coral, her teeth pearls, her neck alabaster, her bosom marble, her hands ivory, her fairness snow, and what modesty conceals from sight such, I think and imagine, as rational reflection can only extol, not compare." Don Quixote Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Baird Posted November 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2012 "? I can tell you that she pitches a bar as well as the strongest lad in the whole village? She's a brawny girl, well built and tall and sturdy, and she will know how to keep her chin out of the mud with any knight errant who ever has her for his mistress. O the wench, what muscles she's got, and what a pair of lungs! I remember the day she went up the village belfry to call in some of their lads who were working in a fallow field of her father's, and they could hear her plainly as if they had been at the foot of the tower, although they were nearly two miles away. There's a good deal of the court-lady about her too, for she has a crack with everybody, and makes a joke and a mock of them all." ---Sancho Panza Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted November 11, 2012 Report Share Posted November 11, 2012 Enough! No more highbrow quotes! Jeez, yoos numbnuts trying to gentrify this joint or sumpfin? Keep it up and I'm gonna stomp on yer pocket protectors. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Baird Posted November 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2012 Sorry John, you lost me. Come on Mike O. A little literature never hurt nobody. Who among us has not known his Dulcinea, and who among us hasn't known Sancho's practical view. The windmill just put my imagination in motion. It was the first one I ever seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kogel Posted November 11, 2012 Report Share Posted November 11, 2012 Sorry, Jim. It's "The Impossible Dream" from"The Man from La Mancha". 1960's stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Amaral Posted November 11, 2012 Report Share Posted November 11, 2012 .. " .. Please pass the jelly.. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolan Kienitz Posted November 11, 2012 Report Share Posted November 11, 2012 Enough! No more highbrow quotes! Jeez, yoos numbnuts trying to gentrify this joint or sumpfin? Keep it up and I'm gonna stomp on yer pocket protectors. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike I could not resist Mike ... you set it up so very well !!! [] Click to Enlarge 15.53 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Baird Posted November 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2012 Sorry, Jim. It's "The Impossible Dream" from"The Man from La Mancha". 1960's stuff. ...never could stand opera. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kogel Posted November 12, 2012 Report Share Posted November 12, 2012 Sorry, Jim. It's "The Impossible Dream" from"The Man from La Mancha". 1960's stuff. ...never could stand opera. It was pop music. For a while, that song was on every lounge singer's lips, AM radio, Ed Sullivan and more. Pictures of Don Quixote and his sidekick reminded me of the Cisco Kid and Pancho. Of course, it was actually the other way round, but Hollywood has a way of twisting your mind, eh? Cisco was the real deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Baird Posted November 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2012 John my comment was of course in jest. I'm lucky not to have the words etched anywhere so did not recognize. I'm sure Bill Murray's lounge lizard character sang it too. Don't get me started on Hollywood, and don't mention Disney either. Both push my rant button. Dulcinea is of course an archetype like Dante's Beatrice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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