Don Quixote

He read too many novels and rode out to fix the world. Same energy as my bookmarks folder.

Tilting at windmills, the giant was a mill and he charged anyway. Both halves are true.

Sancho governed an island better than any educated governor. Wisdom doesn't need literacy.

Dulcinea was a farm girl who never appears. We all write our own love interests into strangers.

The barber's basin, the helmet of Mambrino, reality is a group project.

Part two exists because everyone read part one. Metafiction in 1615, centuries early.

Sancho's proverbs out-argued every knight. Folk wisdom versus chivalric fantasy, and folk wins.

The Knight of the White Moon unseated him with his own rules. You always lose by your own rules eventually.

On his deathbed he became Alonso the Good. Sanity arrived and the story died of it.

Carried out of it: dream precisely. Half-dreams are the dangerous ones.