Tag Archives: Don Quixote

Fantasy’s Special Insight into Reality

By Robin Bates | Published: January 23, 2014

Fantasy literature becomes something different after the world ceased believing in magic.

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The Little Texas Senator that Could

By Robin Bates | Published: September 27, 2013

What should we make of Ted Cruz’s use, in his quasi filibuster, of “Green Eggs and Ham” and “The Little Engine that Could”?

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Quixote’s Battle for Imagination

By Robin Bates | Published: October 6, 2011

In a short poem about about Sancho Panza and one of the windmills, Scott Bates describes Don Quixote’s sidekick as common sense reality robbing life of imagination.

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Learning to Live with E-Readers

By Robin Bates | Published: August 5, 2010

Gustave Dore, Don Quixote  An e-reader has entered our family. Here’s how it happened. My son Toby is studying for his English Ph.D preliminaries and wanted to spend a month reading 19th century British works in the family Maine cottage. He was accompanied by his girlfriend Candice, who is writing qualifying essays for her dissertation. […]

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