"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."— Part 1, Chapter VIII. Of the valourous Don Quixote's success in the dreadful and never before imagined Adventure of the Windmills, with other events worthy of happy record.
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Don Quixote
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On I10 near Palm Springs there are hundreds of these giants, colored white and angry, standing guard in groups along the mountainside. I have passed them a few times now and they did not molest me. No doubt they could crush my truck easily if they so decided.
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ReplyDeleteI will ride all landscapes to crush these monsters.
ReplyDeleteOnce I defeat a halibut with a 70 year old woman. It was terrorizing the ocean. 220 lbs. After we had made the ocean safer, and the beast was lowered into the hold, we returned, slightly shaken, and sold the beast to a man who paid us over 1000 for the horrific creature. He said there was a vicious tribe who would feast on its flesh in huts called "restaurants."