Bernie Is Not The Answer - Sorry

[Jack Rabbit]

125. "He . . . awakes from a dream, having fully recovered his sanity."

And your narrative continues . . . .

*Sancho tries to restore his faith, but Quixano (his proper name) only renounces his previous ambition and apologizes for the harm he has caused. He dictates his will, which includes a provision that his niece will be disinherited if she marries a man who reads books of chivalry."

His delusions were were far more wondrous than the dull reality of his death. Dying in bed is such a waste of a man who had the courage to take on giants. So what if they were actually windmills?

I rest my case.

Cervantes continues his own narrative:

My desire has been no other than to deliver over to the detestation of mankind the false and foolish tales of the books of chivalry, which, thanks to that of my true Don Quixote, are even now tottering, and doubtless doomed to fall for ever.

Perhaps those false and foolish tales of the books of chivalry might well have been forgotten, had Cervantes' contemporary, Shakespeare, not used two or three of them as the bases for his comedies. Cervantes himself also inadvertently immortalized those tales by writing Don Quixote, a work of satire that is indeed superior to most of the literary genre it lampooned.

As I said, Cervantes himself did not understand his own creation. How would most people feel riding forth to take on a few giants? I'd be terrified. Yet Don Quixote had the balls to do it such a thing. Contemplating that helps us understand better what courage really means. A bully goes into a fight, even one that is unnecessary, knowing he is going to win; a fool goes into an unnecessary fight knowing he is going to die; Don Quixote, a brave man, goes into a fight that must be fought not knowing whether he will be victorious or dead at the end..

That brings us to the nobly quixotic run for president of Bernie Sanders.