KNIGHTS & EPITAPHS

DON Q.

His adventures will be a deciphering of the world: a diligent search over the entire surface of the earth for the forms that will prove that what the books say is true. Each exploit must be a proof: it consists, not in a real triumph - which is why victory is not really important - but in an attempt to transform reality into a sign. Into a sign that the signs of language really are in conformity with things themselves. Don Quixote reads the world in order to prove his books...
Beneath the established signs, and in spite of them, he hears another, deeper, discourse, which recalls the time when words glittered in the universal resemblance of things; in the language of the poet, the Sovereignty of the Same, so difficult to express, eclipses, the distinction existing between signs.
-MICHEL FOUCAULT
The Order of Things (1966)

A centaur is a legendary animal, half human and half horse, and so it well represents a perfect union and harmony of mental and physical. A centaur is not a horse rider in control of his horse, but a rider who is one with his horse.
-KEN WILBER
No Boundary (1981)

To transform the leap of life into a walk, absolutely to express the sublime in the pedestrian - that only the knight of faith can do.
-SÖREN KIERKEGAARD
Fear and Trembling (1843)

In the embodiment of Apollo everything must be calm and clear; clear as daylight, for Apollo is the god of light.
-KENNETH CLARK
The Nude (1956)

The only thing I know for sure is this: a horse's head is finally unknowable to me.
-PETER SHAFFER
Equus (1973)

EPITAPHS

DON QUIJOTE
Aquí yace el caballero
bien molido y mal andante
a quien llevó Rocinante
por uno y otro sendero.

ROLAND
Ami Rollant, si mare fut ta vie!
L'anme de tei en pareïs seit mise.

ARTHUR
HIC IACET ARTHVRVS,
REX QVONDAM
REXQVE FVTVRVS

BEOWULF
He wære woruld-cyning,
mannum mildust and mon-þwærust,
leódum liost and lof-geornost.

HEKTOR

PLUTO

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