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CERVANTES |
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May I set the stage? I shall impersonate a man. |
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Come, enter into my imagination and see him! |
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His name... Alonso Quijana... a country squire, |
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no longer young... bony, hollow-faced... eyes |
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that burn with the fire of inner vision. Being |
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retired, he has much time for books. He studies |
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them from morn to night and often through the |
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night as well. And all he reads oppresses him... |
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fills him with indignation at man's murderous |
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ways toward man. And he conceives the strangest |
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project ever imagined... to become a knight-errant |
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and sally forth into the world to right all |
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wrongs. No longer shall he be plain Alonso Quijana... |
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but a dauntless knight known as - |
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Don Quixote de La Mancha! |