Thursday, June 3, 2010

Quixote dies

Quixote dies. 


Quixote dies after he gives up on his dream of being a Knight Errant and saving the distressed of the world. (Quixote's sickbed dream of being a pastoral shepherd is just a make do for the dying Knight's original audacious dream.)


Quixote's death was not because people were ridiculing him, physically harming him, or generally discouraging him. May be it prompted his final decision of giving up.


But the giving up was his choice. And it cost him his life.





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