Don Quixote lives

[bruno]

A friend just reminded me of this. While they were bemoaning having to read Don Quixote - I thought of the Broadway musical "Man of La Mancha". I am a sentimentalist with something of Don Quixote in my soul as I often charge windmills- but tell me that the words to "The Impossible Dream" aren't the motivation behind lots of soldiers?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG5wRdYcaCc&feature=related
"To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go
To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star

This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far
To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell
For a heavenly cause

And I know if I'll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest
And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star"

 

[Pima]

You know you just made me feel old. I remember growing up and that was one of my Dad's favorite songs that we listened to in the car on the wa up to our ski home in VT. Here's the daggar...it was sung by ANDY WILLIAMS on an 8 TRACK

 

[bruno]

hey my first car was a 5 year old 67 Mustang with an 8 track that I installed myself. I can't imagine listening to :Andy Williams: on it though-Jethro Tull,the Moody Blues, Credence Clearwater or Blood Sweat and Tears would have been more the norm for me