Q: Do you know Cervantes's Don Quixote?
A: Oh, sure, of course.
Q: What do you know about it?
A: He was a crazy old man who thought he was a knight. He fought windmills.
Q: What else?
A: That's about it, really. The windmills and all of that. Oh, and Sancho Panza was his squire, of course.
The version of Don Quixote that I'm currently reading is a little over one thousand pages long. The battle with the windmill occupies two of those pages. So .2%.
To borrow, alter, & re-contextualize from Hamlet, " . . . there's hope a great man's work may outlive his life half a year . . . . "
Know what I'm sayin'?
Cervantes deserves better than to be reduced to a Double Jeopardy answer.
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