Bob La Quey wrote: > On Nov 5, 2007 10:20 PM, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bob La Quey wrote: > > > > > > I should _not_ waste my efforts caring about those things that do > > > not matter though > > > > You should not waste your efforts caring about those things that you > > feel do not matter. Big difference. > > Is it not obvious that I am speaking for myself not all of humankind? > > > We don't really know what matters, do we? Only hindsight tells us with > > any certainty. We all have our own giants to tilt at, and there will > > always be a Pancho under a spell that will tell us they are merely > > windmills. > > It is Sancho. And BTW they were windmills.
Yes, it was Sancho. I commonly make that mistake, and am oft corrected for it. Even reading the book recently (actually, in the middle of it) has not cured me of the strange malady. If you ask Sancho - they were windmills. If you ask Don Quixote, they were giants. Worse so, giants turned to windmills by the sage Friston in order to rob Don Quixote of the "glory of vanquishing." I seem to remember later on where Sancho agrees that he must be under a spell, but it was not the battle with the giants/windmills. It's funny how you point out that the finger is not the moon, and when presented with a finger pointing at the moon, you point out hangnails and miss the point. -john The point is preception, and that two different people see the same thing two dfferent ways. While neither may agree, they can both be correct and yet unable to prove it to the other. Much like Don Quixote could see the giants that Sancho could only see as windmills. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
