where is Dulcinea in all of this :-) On Nov 6, 2007 8:58 AM, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
