Welcome to Quixote's Curse!
Why Quixote's Curse?
"I understand that things may not be as I say...but the important thing, sir, is
that I live every day knowing that they will be,to me, as would like."
- Don Quixote (Cervantes)
Quixote's Curse is the brainchild of Gender-Queer Writer, Poet, Comic and
Banker Mary F. Rapach. It is a place to discuss read and speculate about the life
of this particular queer boi in today's American Culture. The curse of Don
Quixote was that, when the world grew to be too disheartening, he hid in the
world of words and created his own ideal. In a society where queer folks are still
on the outskirts of society, what better way to come into our own than to create
the world as we would like it to be? Perhaps the only curse is that it is not yet so.
Words to Live by:
"[They] live like this, sheltered in a delicate world and believe [they] are living.
Then you read a book, or take a trip or talk with [a fellow writer] and discover
that it is not living, it is hibernation.
The symptoms of hibernation are easily detectible... first, restlessness. The
second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might
degenerate into death); absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an
innocuous illness. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They
work in offices, they drive a car, they raise children and then some shock
treatment takes place... a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and
saves them from death."
Anais Nin
Quixote's Curse
