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The Knight of the Woeful Figure

Catholic Stuff You Should Know

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Quixote: A Mirror to the Mad World

Quixote is like a foil or like a mirror to the mad world that calls itself sane or looks sane. You know, both as I just mentioned the obsessive madness that comes from romance. It's rich people who fall in love with poor people and then are go broke. There's a guy who runs after a shepherdess and ends up totally mad naked out in a field. And so there's a question of like, what is the glory?

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