Hasn't this thread turned out nice? It's a while since I read Don Quixote but, as far as I remember, his main concern re women was to find one to serve and worship in a courtly manner. There's a great passage of broad comedy when the good Don mistakes the whores in the tavern for fine ladies and insists on addressing them as such. I seem to recall the delicate poignancy that sits behind the comedy there: the only man who treats the whores with any respect is a madman. Still, we mustn't forget that it was reading books on chivalry that sent DQ mad in the first place.

Xeno, I'd say the PTB were over-stating rather then being dishonest, on the 'underground' claim. It's something that many of us do and it's as well to be pulled up on it. Maturity comes not in avoiding mistakes but acknowledging them :-)

Message edited to get rid of various Monday-morningisms on: 02/28/2005 04:40

Message edited on: 02/28/2005 04:42