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After several days’ hard journey through the Sierra Morena, Don Quixote turns to Sancho and at last reveals his plan: For the love of his mistress, the Lady Dulcinea del Toboso, Quixote was going to go completely insane. Like Charlemagne’s great knight Orlando, or Amadis of Gaul, he would scatter his armor.
Emmett Rensin is the author of The Complications: On Going Insane in America. He lives in Queens.
