HANGING OUT WITH DON QUIXOTE

                                        
With much excitement I am beginning a new project. 

I am reading DON QUIXOTE!!! Every word.


 I had always thought it would be so intellectual and dry; I find this parody is quite wonderful. And it is easy to see why it is considered a masterpiece and has sold more copies than any book next to the Bible!

Here is why I decided to do this: Beanie "made me do it!"

If you read my pretend trip to Barrow, Alaska, 

     (on annieinmemphis.blogspot.com,)

you met the friend I made up but came to love: Beanie. 

     I put her in three pretend trips:
     Barrow, Alaska, Treasure Hunt
    (Argentina) and most recently 
     Why Philipi?

Anyway she sort of took on a life of her own.

I remember standing by her looking at the Arctic Ocean. She was speaking to the memory of her late husband, Tom.

"Well, I'm here Tom, seeing this wonderful sight you always wished I would come with you to see. Now I'm here and its for you, Tom."

Perhaps somewhere in my subconscious, I put those words in her mouth...because 7 mos later I too, would become a widow like Beanie.

Ben taught Spanish Medieval Literature among other things. DON QUIXOTE was a work he especially loved to teach. I had only read excerpts, but I put off reading the whole work.

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I thought the only copy in our home was the large book in Spanish. This week I found  one in English. And in it I found notes in pencil suggesting paintings Ben planned to do (and did) from that story. 

So I am reading it now...and like Beanie..doing this tribute with pleasure.

When I can, I will post the paintings Ben did of scenes from Don Quixote. 


I will be on the blog and face book less for the time being, while I am hanging with Don Quixote!!
More later, with love, annie in memphis
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