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Summary: Is this DQ's future? Parody of chivalry.
Commentary: Don Quixote does the Starship Troopers speech. The knight errant takes personal responsibility for the well being of the body politic. Other than that, basically a summary of a chivalric romance.
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Summary: Fucking Romantics
Commentary: Some fun word play. Some of which is even doubled by making sense with both the original and mispronunciation.
We're going to the beach this weekend, and it makes me think of a story (that I think I've told here before).
I was working at Barnes and Noble, where we had a beach reads table. For some reason, Lolita was on it. I like Lolita as much as the next guy with a classics blog, but I don't think I'd call it a beach read.
One of the cashiers was mad about it, but then I reminded him of the time Indiana Jones (his hero) fucked a vaguely underaged Marion.
Indy is the real Humbert Humbert.
It's been used in approximately everything, though it's usually a different peace of music based on it to varying degrees. Graham De Wilde's Arlington Fanfare is probably the most used. That, or John Williams just yanking bits of it every five minutes.
Bonus:
Who/what is your Dulcinea?
Summary: DQ rants about the good ol' days, and hears a song about unrequited love.
Commentary: I took no notes on this chapter. That's unusual.
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Commentary:
"Where have you ever seen or read that a knight errant has been brought before the law, no matter how many homicides he may have committed?" Don Quixote is so ahead of his time, making the murder hobo jokes.
Bonus: Summary: Is this DQ's future? Parody of chivalry. Commentary: Don Quixote does the Starship Troopers speech. The knight erra...
