was a naval officer who while sailing aboard his ship "Sol" was captured and imprisoned as a PoW for 5 years. Wondering if anyone who has read / studied " The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha " have noticed any more allusions to the work beyond "Rocinate", "the self-romanticized white knight", and "tilting at windmills."
Thinking I'm going to read it next now that I'm done LF.
Time is brief,
anxieties grow,
hopes diminish,
and yet my desire to live
keeps me alive.
"You all say that heaven made me beautiful, so much so that this beauty of mine, with a force you can’t resist, makes you love me; and you say and even demand that, in return for the love you show me, I must love you. By the natural understanding which God has granted me I know that whatever is beautiful is lovable; but I can’t conceive why, for this reason alone, a woman who’s loved for her beauty should be obliged to love whoever loves her. What’s more, it could happen that the lover of beauty is ugly, and since that which is ugly is loathsome, it isn’t very fitting for him to say: ‘I love you because you’re beautiful; you must love me even though I’m ugly.’
Why do you think I should be obliged to give in to you, just because you say you love me dearly? Or else tell me this: if heaven had made me ugly instead of beautiful, would I have been right to complain about you for not loving me? I was born free, and to live free I chose the solitude of the countryside…I have never given any hope to Grisóstomo or fulfilled any man’s desires, so it can truly be said of all of them that they were killed by their own obstinacy rather than by my cruelty."
