Category: Books and writers

Thoughts flow richly. There is an incessant stream of ideas and spiritual impressions to experience when you are aware of it, but also when you sleep and end up in REM sleep. Looks like it's fighting the beers. Perhaps nice to mention where this Dutch expression originated. The expression originated in Amsterdam. The beer cai is a popular name for the Bierkade. That was part of the Oudezijds Voorburgwal, where barrels of beer were delivered and preserved a few centuries ago. The men who did the work were strong guys and they were known as fighter bosses. Anyone who wanted to fight them could be sure in advance to lose this battle. This led to the Fighting the Beer Cay the meaning of doing something impossible, doing useless work.

I myself like to use the image of fighting the windmills, as described in the novel about Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes, in which the main character, together with his loyal neighbor and servant Sancho Panza, battles. In, the ingenious nobleman Don Quixote of La Mancha as the full title of the book reads, Alonso Quijano has lost his mind by reading too many knight novels. Alonso is of low nobility and subsequently thinks he is a wandering knight and that is what he does, making a stray on the roads of the countryside of Spain, around 1600. Seated on his breed horse Rocinant, an old emaciated peasant horse in fact and with an old, rusty armor and paper sting he acts against all possible forms of injustice and injustice. By doing good deeds he hopes to win the heart of his great love, the unparalleled beautiful Dulcinea. In this quest to Dulcinea, in reality a simple farmer's daughter he doesn't know and who probably doesn't even exist, he is assisted by Sancho, who essentially likes good food and calls his master the knight of the sad figure. Sancho knows Alonso isn't completely in his head. Don Quixote in turn sees inns for castles, spiritual to villains and windmills, there they are, for giants. With his army, a flock of sheep, he liberates state-dangering criminals, or people who are imprisoned for their dissent. Sancho is a little more sober and feels differently. The book consequently acts

It is clear that the book is a parody, it is an attack on the knight novel and a charge against what Cervantes said was wrong in the 16^e A century in Spain with the nobility, the church, the masses and probably society as a whole. Apparently, this criticism of all times and the fight against abuses, although necessary and admirable, is an apparently fighting against the beers, at least in the eyes of many. However, it is also a book about love and then in all its qualities, from earthly, lustful love to courtly worship and love among friends. I can't do better in this context, unfortunately. Windmills certainly have a function to fulfil, but whether it is always understood correctly is the question. There is also a beautiful film from the 1960s entitled More with a soundtrack by Pink Floyd.