is madness...He [Don Quixote] ceases to be a reader of the novels of chivalry and becomes the actor of his own epic adventures...Because...we read it and do not see it, we shall never know what it is that the goodly gentleman puts on his head: the fabled helm of Mambrino, or a vulgar barber's basin...character [Don Quixote] knows that he is being written about at t
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