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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-19-05 11:38 AM
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Poll question: Have you read Don Quixote?
Well?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4455833.stm

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez urged everyone to read Miguel de Cervantes' Spanish classic.

He called on everyone to "feed ourselves once again with that spirit of a fighter who went out to undo injustices and fix the world".

"To some extent, we are followers of Quixote," he told viewers of his Hello President TV show.

(snip)

Don Quixote recently beat the likes of Shakespeare and Tolstoy to be named the best work of fiction in a survey of leading writers from across the world.

Spain has been leading the celebrations of one of its most famous books, with new editions printed along with readings and seminars.
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-19-05 11:39 AM
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1. "told viewers of his Hello President TV show."
:rofl:

Hello President!
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-19-05 11:40 AM
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2. hehehehe... kinda like Hello Kitty
only less unfair to the workers!
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-19-05 11:42 AM
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4. I like that idea.
I'll have to dig out my copy of Don Quixote now. President Chavez is a smart man. I'll heed his advice.
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fertilizeonarbusto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-19-05 11:40 AM
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3. five times now n/t
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ReadTomPaine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-19-05 11:43 AM
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5. How closely did "Man of La Mancha" come to the original.. anyone?
Edited on Tue Apr-19-05 11:45 AM by ReadTomPaine
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068909/

RTP
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