Windmill Crusader/Quotes

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.

Jorge Luis Borges once called Don Quixote the least necessary of books. Nothing would change if it had not been written. I think he was wrong. Don Quixote is a metaphor for the “age of ideologies.” At the dawn of mechanization, which made abundance and freedom from toil possible, Cervants foresaw how possible it was to get completely detached from reality and beguiled by pretty tales.

— Knowing Things That Aren’t So by Sarah Hoyt
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