on the impossible

"Stand under Niagara Falls and spit the water back."
-  Boss Platt

Hear me now 

Oh, thou bleak and unbearable world 

Thou art base and debauched as can be 

And the knight with his banners all bravely unfurled 

Now hurls down his gauntlet to thee

I am I, Don Quixote The Lord of La Mancha 

My destiny calls and I go 

And the wild winds of fortune
Will carry me onward
Whithersoever they blow 

Whithersoever they blow 

Onward to glory I go
- Man of La Mancha

birth of the modern novel

Miguel de Cervantes' 17th century Don Quixote aims to change a world he does not like and cannot understand.

Salvador Dali image source here.