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[Bohandas]

Happened to recall a conversation I had about a week ago where someone was talking about how their sister had a condition where her brain was coming dislodged from her skull and sinking into her neck and they couldn't put her under during the surgery to correct it because of potential complications. That's one of the most disturbing things I've ever heard and since I remembered it I can't stop thinking about it.

[TheBiggerFish]

AaaaaaIdidn'tfinishtheessayaaaaa

[i2amroy]

A small jar of water got tipped over by cats on my desk, where my laptop was lying. Now I'm terrified it might be ruined but I don't dare turn it on until its had a chance to dry out. Put it on some rice + paper towels on the counter for the night. Praying that fucking 'lily' cat doesn't just push it off onto the floor for her own amusement.

Note on this, but uncooked rice is actually pretty bad at this. Best things in the tests they did were simply opening as much up as possible and letting it air dry, or using instant rice/couscous (cat litter worked better, but the particles can be a fair bit more dangerous to electronics so use it with care).

[Loud Whispers]

AaaaaaIdidn'tfinishtheessayaaaaa

gitgud finish it

[Shadowlord]

That's one of the most disturbing things I've ever heard and since I remembered it I can't stop thinking about it.

I'm very good at forgetting. It's a gift. Or maybe it's a skill. I've forgotten. 

[TheBiggerFish]

AaaaaaIdidn'tfinishtheessayaaaaa

gitgud finish it

AaaaaaaanothelpingunlessyoucanhelpmefigureoutjustwhatanexcerptofDonQuixoteissatirizingaaaaaaaa

[Loud Whispers]

AaaaaaIdidn'tfinishtheessayaaaaa

gitgud finish it

AaaaaaaanothelpingunlessyoucanhelpmefigureoutjustwhatanexcerptofDonQuixoteissatirizingaaaaaaaa

IT'S ABOUT BANTER

[TheBiggerFish]

AaaaaaIdidn'tfinishtheessayaaaaa

gitgud finish it

AaaaaaaanothelpingunlessyoucanhelpmefigureoutjustwhatanexcerptofDonQuixoteissatirizingaaaaaaaa

IT'S ABOUT BANTER

aaaaaanoitisn'tareyoukiddingmeaaaaa

[Descan]

I mean

maybe

if you post it

someone will be able to say "yo you idiot it's obviously about the pope"

[TheBiggerFish]

It's Don Quixote, and I need to figure out (pretty much) what aspect of society the tilting at windmills is satirizing.

Or the first chapter.

[Yoink]

Well, the Wikipedia page on "tilting at windmills" seems pretty helpful... if you can find other sources as well.

[Amperzand]

Hmm. Well, you may have a problem.

Wkipedia has knowledge.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Historical context[edit]
Cervantes wrote Don Quixote in two parts, published respectively in 1605 and 1615, during the latter part of a historical period known as the Spanish Golden Age. During this age, Spain pursued military conquests in parts of Europe and conquered large parts of the Americas, which brought great riches to the country and inspired a flowering of the arts. In La Mancha, Castilla, there are still some of the old windmills that Don Quixote found in his adventures.

Cervantes wrote and published Don Quixote during the Eighty Years' War, or Dutch War of Independence (1568–1648), a revolt by the Habsburg Netherlands to end Spanish rule. In Don Quixote, the eponymous protagonist consistently misinterprets his own, his adversaries', and his allies' actions and motives — regularly resulting in apparently unjustified violent actions and consequences. One way of interpreting Don Quixote's tilting at windmills could be as an allegory to promote critical, skeptical, or satirical evaluation of either a hero's motives, rationales and actions, or a nation's foreign policies.

[TheBiggerFish]

1)Can't cite Wikipedia.  English teacher will burn me at the stake.  ;P
2)That actually doesn't have much to do with the actual scene from the book.  More about the modern uses of the phrase.


How do you get from tilting at windmills to foreign policy...?  ANSWER ME, WIKIPEDIA!

[TD1]

The aggressive nature of the protagonist is violent due to a misinterpretation of people's motives. Perhaps he's satirising the way in which Spain is lashing out at other country's during this time - for example, England had an embargo thingy because they took on some money from a bank going to fund soldiers in the Netherlands, which led to rebellion. This was sometime in the later 1500s. It led to a devastating blow to both English and Netherlands

Not sure as to relevance, but I'm sitting here writing an English essay at four am so you'll take what you get and sift through dross for gold.

[Bohandas]

It's Don Quixote, and I need to figure out (pretty much) what aspect of society the tilting at windmills is satirizing.

Or the first chapter.

IIRC the whole thing was intended as a satire of overly romanticized novels about knights and chivalry which were popular at the time.

(In a more general sense probably not intended by the author tilting at windmills could be seen as representative of almost all of society)