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His name... Alonso Quijana.
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A country gentleman,
no longer young.
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Being retired,
he has much time for books.
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He studies them
from morn till night...
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and often through the night
till morn again.
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And all he reads
oppresses him...
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fills him with indignation...
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at man's murderous ways
towards man.
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He ponders the problem...
how to make better a world...
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where evil brings profit
and virtue none at all.
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Where fraud,
deceit, and malice...
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are mingled
with truth and sincerity.
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He broods and broods
and broods and broods...
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and broods and finally
his brains dry up.
:18:43
He lays down the melancholy
burden of sanity...
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and conceives the strangest
project ever imagined...
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to become a knight-errant,
and sally forth...
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to roam the world
in search of adventures...
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to right all wrongs,
to mount a crusade...
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to raise up the weak
and those in need.
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He persuades his neighbor,
one Sancho Panza...
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a country laborer
and an honest man...
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if the poorer
may be called honest...
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and he was poor, indeed,
to become his squire.
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He selects an ancient
cart horse called Rosinante...
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to become his steed...
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and the safeguard
of his master's will.
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These preparations made,
he seizes his lance.
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No longer will he be
plain Alonso Quijana...
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but a dauntless knight...
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known as
Don Quixote de La Mancha!
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Hear me now
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Oh, thou bleak
and unbearable world
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Thou art base
and debauched as can be
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And the knight with his banners
all bravely unfurled
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Now hurls down
his gauntlet to thee
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I am I, Don Quixote