“All the effort in the world won’t matter if you’re not inspired”*…
More weird wisdom at Werner Herzog Inspirationals
* Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
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As we study Stuart Smalley, we might recall that it was on this date in 1616 that Cervantes’ Los Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda (The Works of Persiles and Sigismunda) was accepted for publication. A departure from the celebration of the commonplace in his Don Quixote, the Persiles is a romance– a Byzantine novel– full of fantasy. Cervantes, who had died three days after finishing the manuscript, believed it to be his crowning achievement.
The cover of the first edition, which appeared the following year (1617)