{"id":818,"date":"2007-08-13T06:14:15","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T13:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=818"},"modified":"2016-10-10T22:44:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T05:44:03","slug":"2-references-to-the-knight-of-the-sorrowful-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/2-references-to-the-knight-of-the-sorrowful-face","title":{"rendered":"2 References to the Knight of the Sorrowful Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just started Gene Wolfe&#8217;s novel <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Knight<\/span>, and the first thing I encountered was this epigraph by Lord Dunsany which just happens to mention my favorite knight:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3700 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Don-Quixote-Dore.jpg\" alt=\"Don Quixote by Dore\" width=\"400\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Don-Quixote-Dore.jpg 400w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Don-Quixote-Dore-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>The Riders<\/p>\n<p>Who treads those level lands of gold,<br \/>\nThe level fields of mist and air,<br \/>\nAnd rolling mountains manifold<br \/>\nAnd towers of twilight over there?<br \/>\nNo mortal foot upon them strays,<br \/>\nNo archer in the towers dwells,<br \/>\nBut feet too airy for our ways<br \/>\nGo up and down their hills and dells.<br \/>\nThe people out of old romance,<br \/>\nAnd people that have never been,<br \/>\nAnd those that on the border dance<br \/>\nBetween old history and between<br \/>\nResounding fable, as the king<br \/>\nWho held his court at Camelot.<br \/>\nThere Guinevere is wandering<br \/>\nAnd there the knight Sir Lancelot.<br \/>\nAnd by yon precipice of white,<br \/>\nAs steep as Roncesvalles, and more,<br \/>\nWithin an inch of fancy&#8217;s sight,<br \/>\nRoland the peerless rides to war.<br \/>\nAnd just the tip of Quixote&#8217;s spear,<br \/>\nThe greatest of them all by far,<br \/>\nIs surely visible from here!<br \/>\nBut no: it is the Evening Star.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then I came across this quote by George Bernard Shaw:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And congratulations to Danielle at <a href=\"http:\/\/danitorres.typepad.com\/workinprogress\/2007\/08\/a-little-fanfar.html\">A Work in Progress<\/a> for finishing Don Quixote!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just started Gene Wolfe&#8217;s novel The Knight, and the first thing I encountered was this epigraph by Lord Dunsany which just happens to mention my favorite knight: The Riders Who treads those level lands of gold, The level fields of mist and air, And rolling mountains manifold And towers of twilight over there? No mortal foot upon them strays, No archer in the towers dwells, But feet too airy for our ways Go up and down their hills and dells. 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