I have spent too much of my life fighting the giants. I'm putting down my sword and savoring the scenery with my Sancho's!
By the way, Don Quixote is a free download for kindle from Amazon!
Just then they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that rise from that plain. And no sooner did Don Quixote see them that he said to his squire, "Fortune is guiding our affairs better than we ourselves could have wished. Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them. With their spoils we shall begin to be rich for this is a righteous war and the removal of so foul a brood from off the face of the earth is a service God will bless."
"What giants?" asked Sancho Panza.
"Those you see over there," replied his master, "with their long arms. Some of them have arms well nigh two leagues in length."
"Take care, sir," cried Sancho. "Those over there are not giants but windmills. Those things that seem to be their arms are sails which, when they are whirled around by the wind, turn the millstone."
Oh, I didn't know. I'll have to get it on my Kindle. Thanks for the tip. It is Evan's all time favorite book. I've been meaning to read it for years. I am wondering if Quixote's eyes are as bad as mine! Claudia got Evan hooked on Borges as well. I'll have to try his work too.
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