Tilting at windmills Cervantes wrote and published "Don Quixote" during the Eighty Years' War, or Dutch War of Independence (1568–1648), a revolt by the Habsburg Netherlands to end Spanish rule. In "Don Quixote", the eponymous protagonist consistently misinterprets the motives and actions of his adversaries and allies, and struggles to even understand his own at times — a conundrum regularly resulting in apparently unjustified violent actions and consequences. One way of interpreting Don Quixote's tilting at windmills could be allegorically, thereby promoting critical, skeptical, or satirical evaluation of either a hero's motives, rationales and actions, or the ultimate aims of a nation's foreign
Hindu Windmills website. Hindu Windmills An album by Elephant Micah, released after a long delay in December, 2006 on Time-Lag Records. Demos were circulating the internet as "Elephant Micah and the Hindu Windmills". For unknown reasons, the album, originally due out in the spring, had been repeatedly delayed by the label. The vinyl version was released nine months before the CD due to long delay by the record company.. One song, "Devil With A Wooden Face", was posted on multiple blogs on June 6, 2006. Many of the songs can be found on the live shows available for download at the Hoosier