Don Quixote de La Mancha

Don Quixote de La Mancha

// just wanted to post.. in lieu with the ballet show that we've watched recetly @ CCP
// sobrang galing as in i love it..heheh kahit na daming unexpected moment na nangyari..O_o!

In a village on the plateau of La Mancha in south-central Spain lives a country gentleman of fifty years named Alonso Quijano. As a hidalgo (a nobleman of the lower ranks) he lacks the money and lavish amenities of the higher Spanish nobles. Nevertheless, the rents he receives from his property enable him to live a modestly comfortable life. Residing with him in his home are his twenty-year-old niece, a middle-aged housemaid, and a man to saddle his horse, work his fields, and perform odd jobs.
.......To maintain his tall, thin frame, Quijano eats meat hashes, bacon and eggs, lentils, and on Sundays an occasional pigeon. When he dresses up, he wears a handsome suit with a jerkin, velvet stockings, and–for special activities such as attending mass on holy days of obligation–velvet pantofles (slippers).
.......His great passion in life is to discuss and read about knights of old and their weaponry, their battles, and their ladies. It is not uncommon for him to argue at length with the village priest and barber over who was the best of the knights. Among the names that surface in their arguments are Palmerin of England, Amadis of Gaul, and Amadis’s brother, Don Galaor.
.......One of Quijano’s favorite knights is Rodrigo Díaz de Divar, known as the Cid, who conquered Valencia and became a national hero. But Quijano says the Cid could not compare with the Knight of the Burning Sword, who killed two giants with one blow. He in turn could not compare with Bernardo del Carpio, who slew the fabled Roland of Roncesvalles. However, none of these heroes, Quijano believes, could compare with his favorite of favorites, Reinaldos of Montalban, who stole a golden idol of Mahomet.
.......So taken with the tales of great knights is Quijano that he spends entire days reading books about them. At night, he continues his reading until the sun rises. Then the whole cycle begins anew. In time, his lack of sleep–and the burden of tales he carries in his brain–undermine his sanity. So disoriented does he become that he decides one day to take up knight-errantry himself, donning an old suit of armor left behind by his grandfather and a headpiece with a missing visor that he replaces with a cardboard flap. Further rummaging produces the necessary weaponry. A bony barnyard nag becomes his trusty steed, which he names Rosinante, and a peasant girl from the neighboring village of Toboso becomes his lady fair. It does not matter that he has never spoken to this damsel, called Aldonsa Lorenzo. Quixote thinks of her as his own and imagines she has a romantic name, Dulcinea del Toboso. He pledges to perform valorous feats in her honor. Finally, he has an innkeeper dub him Don Quixote de La Mancha, a name that took him eight days to invent.

// full of great novels, plays, short storys ung link na to..i also got this plot here..Q_o..
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