Tag Archives: Miguel de Cervantes

How Fantasy Saves Our Souls

By Robin Bates | Published: April 13, 2015

Great fantasy can always be seen as oppositional, pushing against prevailing modes of thought and opening up portals into new human possibilities.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Age of Reason, Bacchae, Don Quixote, Enlightenment, Euripides, fantasy, Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Scientific Revolution, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Tracks | Comments closed

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”?

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Don Quixote, Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham, Little Engine that Could, politics, Ted Cruz, Wally Piper | Comments closed

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.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Sancho Panza Come and Fight", Charles Dickens, Don Quixote, Hard Times, Imagination, Scott Bates | Comments closed