i took this photograph of a relief of Don Quixote at the Hispanic Society of America an awesome & under-known museum up in Harlem. Sheesh, talk about old objects! they got ancient stuff & modern stuff, paintings, crucifixes, Goyas, El Grecos, incredibly rare & beautiful maps. etc... check this place out.
usually monuments have a tendency to freak me out. it has to do with the past event & the (often) problematic aggrandization of that which is far more complex & probably offensive. but there's something so lovely about creating a monument to the fictional. a celebration of the literary, the satiric & creative forces which tend to come in second in our collective historical memory.
furthermore, i read the first third of Don Quixote last summer & was astonished that something written in a foreign tongue five hundred years ago could actually make me LOL. but it did! i never finished it, however, i mean in this day-in-age, who has the time?
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