On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>wrote:
> going over to Forbes.com to look at their college rankings (a whole other
> thread . . . or two, or three), i was interrupted by an ad and a "thought
> for the day" from our friends at Forbes. it was a quotation from Cervantes
> that went (approximately), "one should never stand begging for that which
> one has the power to earn."
>
> Immediately, I thought of El Sub back in the day discussing with some
> writer at the Nation or something how he traveled with a copy of Don
> Quijote, and found myself wondering about the context from which that
> snippet was torn.
>
> I don't suppose anyone knows?
>