Michael Gorman


"All the adventures of a knight-errant appear to be illusion, follies and dreams, and turn out to be the reverse. Not because things are really so, but because in our midst there is a host of enchanters, forever changing, disguising, and transforming our affairs as they please, according to whether they wish to favor or destroy us."

"And so, Sancho, for what i want of Dulcinea of El Toboso, she is as good as the greatest princess in the land. And it is not true that all those poets who praise ladies under names they choose so freely really have them as mistresses. Do you think that the Amaryllises, the Phyllises, the Sylvias, the Dianas, the Galateas, and all the rest of which the book. the ballad, the barber shops, the comic theaters, are full, were genuinely ladies of flesh and blood and the mistresses of those who celebrated their charms? Certainly not. Most of them were Invented to serve as subjects for verses and to enable the poets to prove themselves lovers or capable of being such. I am therefore content to imagine and believe that the good Aldonza Lorenzo is lovely and virtuous; and the question of her lineage is of little importance, for no one will investigate that for the purpose of investing her with any order, and for my part I consider her the greatest princess in the world. For I want you to know, Sancho, if you don't know it already, that two things above all others arouse love.They are great beauty and a good name, and these two things are to be found in Dulcinea to a surpassing degree. In beauty she has no rival, and few can equal her in good name. And, to conclude, I believe that everything is as isee it, neither more nor less, and in my imagination I portray her as I wish her to be both in beauty and in quality."


































What madness of, so ardorous, so valiant, so invincible, but so humanly, so gentlemanly, so poetic, so intelligent, so many so aristocratic mentality which The Knight Of Rueful Figure of La Mancha had showed us, no less than his noble quality present itself more shine? Yea, what i'm now saying is Don Quixote's charm cast on us in this bitter age. how could i not be attracted at these character, sir Knight Of Rueful Figure of La Mancha, as well as Sancho Panza, Rosinante, curate, barber and everyone in this book? I love this all, as same madness as enchanted Don Quixote sallied for his knight-errant