[lbo-talk] question about Cervantes

[Jeffrey Fisher]

Curious. I've just spent an inordinate amount of time looking for anything
in DQ that could possibly resemble the tidbit from "the wit and wisdom of
don quixote" or its Forbes version. It's possible I've missed it, but in any
case it really does seem as though the Forbes editors never read Cervantes.
I mean, surely they would disapprove of Don Quixote's staying at an inn and
then leaving without paying because, despite the fact that it was an inn and
not the castle DQ thought it was, free lodging (aka, "hospitality") is what
all knights errant deserve on account of all the adventure-seeking they do.
It being really rough work making turning windmills into giants and sheep
into opposing armies. And such.

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:05 PM, socialismorbarbarism <
socialismorbarbarism at gmail.com> wrote:


> The source seems to be a 19th century monstrosity called "The Wit and
> Wisdom and Don Quixote," which, if I'm reading it right, has at best
> an occasional connection to anything actually written by Cervantes.
>
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=mq0ZYja51hMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22wit+and+wisdom+of+don+quixote%22&source=bl&ots=f1i1OGuc3a&sig=jMNk1xDF184-trvjNqgeHljZfJs&hl=en&ei=NKNlTIOZFoG4sQOxldGoDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=never%20stand%20begging&f=false
>
> http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24754/24754-8.txt
>
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:28 AM, 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?
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