21 Years and No Quixote!

Sep 30, 2005 22:53

For a person who is so very enamored by the dictionary, and who use to thoroughly enjoy grabbing a volume of the encycopedia in school and burning away whatever free time was available by perusing it - especially relishing chances to find new and interesting words, like peruse and relish - it was not until today when my wife, Peggy, told me to wikipedia him. Just prior to this moment - this slightly-waxing illuminative moment - I had confessed that I had so many times heard "quixotic" and of Don Quixote, but had never had any idea what the former meant or who the latter was! Me, of all people, who looks for any excuse to consult a dictionary or encylopedia, had never thought to do so.

So for all those who shared in this lack of understanding, join me in The White Light of Understanding, and bask in the glow of the knowledge of the wikipedia: Don Quixote, Revealed!

I feel as though the convertible top of my mind has been dropped...I think. I don't exactly know what that means, but it sounds right, somehow.
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