A Quote from Don Quixote

[Mark Kohut]

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Palgrave_Handbook_of_Philosophy_and/y_iBDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=
“*And+if+this+is+done+in+a+pleasing+style+and+with+ingenious+invention,+and+is+drawn+as+close+as+possible+to+the+truth,+it+no+doubt+will+weave+a+cloth+composed+of+many+different+and+beautiful+threads,+and+when+it+is+finished,+it+will+display+such+perfection+and+beauty+that+it+will+achieve+the+greatest+goal+of+any+writing,+which,+as+I+have+said,+is+to+teach+and+delight+at+the+same+time.+Because+the+free+writing+style+of+these+books+allows+the+author+to+show+his+skills+as+an+epic,+lyric,+tragic,+and+comic+writer,+with+all+the+characteristics+contained+in+the+sweet+and+pleasing+sciences+of+poetry+and+rhetoric%3B+for+the+epic+can+be+written+in+prose+as+well+as+in+verse.*”&pg=PA262&printsec=frontcover

And from Steve Moore, Gaddis expert and who has appeared on the Plist, I
believe.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Novel_An_Alternative_History_1600_18/yWNBAQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=*And+if+this+is+done+in+a+pleasing+style+and+with+ingenious+invention,+and+is+drawn+as+close+as+possible+to+the+truth,+it+no+doubt+will+weave+a+cloth+composed+of+many+different+and+beautiful+threads,+and+when+it+is+finished,+it+will+display+such+perfection+and+beauty+that+it+will+achieve+the+greatest+goal+of+any+writing,+which,+as+I+have+said,+is+to+teach+and+delight+at+the+same+time.+Because+the+free+writing+style+of+these+books+allows+the+author+to+show+his+skills+as+an+epic,+lyric,+tragic,+and+comic+writer,+with+all+the+characteristics+contained+in+the+sweet+and+pleasing+sciences+of+poetry+and+rhetoric%3B+for+the+epic+can+be+written+in+prose+as+well+as+in+verse.*
”&pg=PA4&printsec=frontcover

On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 3:25 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> This quote (I don’t have chapter/verse, so, no, heretical me, I haven’t
> verified its bona fides) was sent without further comment besides the
> headline supplied by the sender to the Pynchon group, r/ThomasPynchon, on
> Reddit, and I thought it was fantastic, and must be already well known
> before I saw it yesterday.  The metaphor of a tapestry was exactly,
> specifically what I felt I’d just read after finishing GR my first time.
>
> *A Quote from Don Quixote that Pynchon might have had in Mind*
>
> “*And if this is done in a pleasing style and with ingenious invention, and
> is drawn as close as possible to the truth, it no doubt will weave a cloth
> composed of many different and beautiful threads, and when it is finished,
> it will display such perfection and beauty that it will achieve the
> greatest goal of any writing, which, as I have said, is to teach and
> delight at the same time. Because the free writing style of these books
> allows the author to show his skills as an epic, lyric, tragic, and comic
> writer, with all the characteristics contained in the sweet and pleasing
> sciences of poetry and rhetoric; for the epic can be written in prose as
> well as in verse.*”
> --
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>