Don Quixote

i quote servantess from donkey holly about magic you know someone wrote a book in the 1600s and he talks about the two what we like to call the two impossible theory not the two perfect theory the two impossible theory and he talks about that perfection in writing is is restraining exaggeration and it's a whole paragraph about that art needs to be believable there has to be truth in it to be enjoyed so and it's so much true for magic i can't just even when we do something that's impossible i still want the ground to be plausible maybe maybe this could happen therefore i need to restrain exaggeration i need to restrain the impossibility and that again this is a novel from the 1600s donkey over my favorite book of all time teaching us about magic

Hank, what do you think about Don Quixote? Have you started reading it yet? I got a... You guys said audiobook didn't count. Yeah. So I started audiobook, reconsidered that. We're going to dive into some chapters soon, maybe.

That's another Don Quixote reference, Hank. I'm sure you've finished that book by now because it's been so long.

Don Quixotes they're ... on this quest ... I think one of the things that makes Don Quixote ... compelling ... is that the character fully believes it ... the character is completely invested ...

I would recommend Don Quixote for many people, the first great masterpiece in the novel form, especially because there's now a wonderful new translation of it by Edith Grossman.

So I would recommend Don Quixote for many people, the first great masterpiece in the novel form... and there's now a wonderful new translation of it by Edith Grossman, which makes it very accessible to English readers.

The book that I feel embarrassed to say it again because it's almost always the book that comes to mind is Don Quixote. I just think that it explains a lot about the world... it's kind of lifeaffirming and sad at the same time.

So you've got Don Quixote and all kind of things.

It is Don Quixote by Cervantes. And it was published in 1605. It has sold approximately 500 million copies, and it has been translated into 145 languages. I had to read Don Quixote, by the way, in my college Spanish class.

It's really funny to me because Cervantes... if you look up like what the author why he wrote Don Quixote, it was because he was really pissed at the popular fiction that existed at the day, which was mostly these like really shitty and derivative stories of like medieval knights and, you know, doing night shit.

He specifically framed Don Quixote as an attack on, quote, vain and empty books of chivalry.

He was trying to destroy a genre of fiction that he found tepid and not engaging and not particularly like intellectually valuable.

And it's exactly the kind of fiction that Jordan B. Peterson has based his entire life view on.

Don Quixote. It's an epic tale. And here you are. I was like the second chance at love. I'm not saying no twice. And I bought them.

The phrase is thought to originate from Don Quixote. What? Wait, stop. That's crazy. I haven't thought about Don Quixote in like 18 years since high school English class.

there is a big metaphor like in literature you have it, for example, the white whale, Moby Dick, and the hunt for it or Don Quixote attacking the windmills with his lance.

one of the earliest written versions of the phrase appears in Thomas Shelton's 1620 translation of Don Quixote