I still don't get it

>>8527187
kys

>>8527187
you are the black dot
you are smart
you consider your options
you recognize the flaw in all of them (the fatal flaw, that precludes you from doing it)
in inaction, you commit the worst flaw of all

don is the red dot
he does not consider his options
he refuses to see the flaw in his actions
in action, he is cleansed of all sin

>>8527234
Thx

>>8527234
wtf is this nonsense

>>8527187
Forget the "dot" shit. Go read a bunch of medieval chivalric high romances (the stuff that sends old Don round the bend and unable to deal with the prosaic non-heroic reality he lives in). If you have time, read Amadís de Gaula, Orlando innamorato & Orlando furioso, Apuleius's The Golden Ass, etc.

>>8527629
is cervantez the tarantino of literature

>>8527187
dude inns and chastity lmao

>>8527661
Pretty much. He's a top 10 in every category of storytelling. Cervantes deserves more credit for his talents. But just like Tarantino he receives unwarranted hate.

>>8527187
The moral of Don Quixote is just b urself :^)

>>8527187
FIRST MODERN NOVEL

>>8528388
>Dad, you can't revenge on animals. That's the point of Moby Dick.
>Lisa, the point of Moby Dick is be yourself.

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>tfw slowly becoming Don Quixote

feels pretty good desu

>>8527629
for what purpose

>>8530225
Because those are works Cervantes is responding to, references in the text, and has fun dismantling. Without some basis in the "days of yore" chivalric shit that was so popular in his day, it's like trying to enjoy Kill Bill if you've never seen a Western, old kung-fu films, or anything else he's playing with.

do people who are reading Don Quixote for the first time and make threads like this one actually get the full book, part 1 and 2?
if it doesnt end with Quixote dying, it is only the first part.

>>8530225
Orlando Furioso is actually pretty good.

>>8530559
But the book is much more than muh satire

>>8530659
Of course, but if you have no idea how chivalry was viewed in Cervantes' day, you can't get any further.

>>8527234
what about the green light

>>8530576
spoiler alert

>>8531363
And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was just Green Lantern, charging up his ring after porking Daisy, before flying off somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.

>>8530559
Lots of people enjoy Kill Bill without reading those

>>8531638
Yes, and they miss tons of stuff. You can enjoy most works without context or sources, but that doesn't mean you have a decent understanding of them. There's nothing democratic about literature.