On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>wrote:
> 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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