CERVANTES
May I set the stage?
I shall impersonate a man
Come, enter into my imagination and see him!
His name... Alonso Quijana... a country squire
No longer young... bony, hollow-faced
Eyes that burn with the fire of inner vision
Being retired, he has much time for books
He studies them from morn to night and often through the night as well
And all he reads oppresses him
Fills him with indignation at man's murderous ways toward man
And he conceives the strangest project ever imagined
To become a knight-errant
And sally forth into the world to right all wrongs
No longer shall he be plain Alonso Quijana
But a dauntless knight known as
Don Quixote de La Mancha!
