Don Quixote, drawing by Pablo Picasso
After
touring Pablo Picasso’s museum in Barcelona, we could not resist
buying a print of his masterly sketch of Don Quixote and his
companion Sancho Panza, the characters from Miquel de Cervantes’
novel about the adventures of Don Quixote. The black and white
drawing stands out in its simplicity, depicting the two main
characters on horse and donkey, against a background of windmills and
the sun.
In
the novel, Don Quixote unexpectedly starts to fight against turning
windmills, which he perceives as his main enemies. Four hundred years
later, this particular image still conveys a powerful and fascinating
message. Sure, in Auroville we do have our own tribe of windmill
storm troopers who, suddenly spotting a moving windmill, identify it
as their main enemy, and charge and attack the perceived evil with
all their mental force, mostly to receive a beating from the
encounter.
Along
my journey there have been plenty of encounters with turning
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