Perhaps if someone did an instrumental rendition of the tune matched into the background of this so neither the Ambassadors nor the instrument drowned the other out, but complemented one another. A single guitar in the Spanish style, maybe. Doug might comment then that he was grateful to whoever added the guitar piece, because otherwise he couldn't have activated a power from the Ambassadors' performance.
And I realized there's another possibility for what effect this might produce: a simulacrum, not of Don Quixote as Cervantes portrayed him, but of the superhero knight of Alonso Quixano's fantasy -- the greatest paladin in all the world, who genuinely can and does kick Evil's butt. Holly Lisle wrote a short story, "Knight and the Enemy," based on an outline by L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff, invoking that figure. In her story, Harold Shea, though he's been associating with gods lately, thinks he's never seen a more majestic face than that of Don Quixote de la Mancha....
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
And I realized there's another possibility for what effect this might produce: a simulacrum, not of Don Quixote as Cervantes portrayed him, but of the superhero knight of Alonso Quixano's fantasy -- the greatest paladin in all the world, who genuinely can and does kick Evil's butt. Holly Lisle wrote a short story, "Knight and the Enemy," based on an outline by L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff, invoking that figure. In her story, Harold Shea, though he's been associating with gods lately, thinks he's never seen a more majestic face than that of Don Quixote de la Mancha....
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.