One More New Year's Resolution
If you still have room left for another entry on your New Year’s resolution list, please consider adding the following:
Read Don Quixote
Some people find the book difficult. It is over a thousand pages in some formats and translations; it is convoluted and demanding at times: and it does twist your mind.
Some people find the book difficult. It is over a thousand pages in some formats and translations; it is convoluted and demanding at times: and it does twist your mind.
But it is also engaging, charming and uplifting.
With the approach of a special trip to Spain, I made reading the book one of my resolutions one year ago this week. And it was a great decision.
Not only did it take me away to another world, again and again, I found myself laughing out loud at these words written four hundred years ago.
For me, I found it specifically relevant and helpful in present-day struggles to reconcile official “truths” with what should be and what is.
I am slow reader, easily distracted, and a committed fan of non-fiction and history.
But I ended up reading this thing three times. That’s the best testimonial I can offer.
But if you want an more eloquent and insightful version of what I am trying to say, please read this somewhat recent NY Times Online Opinion piece by John Hopkins Prof William Egginton.
But I ended up reading this thing three times. That’s the best testimonial I can offer.
But if you want an more eloquent and insightful version of what I am trying to say, please read this somewhat recent NY Times Online Opinion piece by John Hopkins Prof William Egginton.