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  "id": "texto-la-locura-de-quijote",
  "language": "en",
  "canonical": "https://paynalton.tech/en/works/la-locura-de-quijote/",
  "title": "The Madness of Quixote",
  "summary": "A bus journey narrated with the imagination of Don Quixote.",
  "author": "Paynalton",
  "format": "personal",
  "year": 2010,
  "source": "https://montanaplateada.blogspot.com/2010/01/la-locura-de-quijote.html",
  "partial": false,
  "topics": [
    {
      "title": "Chronicles and personal notes",
      "url": "https://paynalton.tech/en/topics/lectura-categoria-personales/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Personal text",
      "url": "https://paynalton.tech/en/topics/lectura-texto-personal/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Personal chronicle",
      "url": "https://paynalton.tech/en/topics/lectura-cronica-personal/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Literature",
      "url": "https://paynalton.tech/en/topics/lectura-literatura/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Trip",
      "url": "https://paynalton.tech/en/topics/lectura-viaje/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Love",
      "url": "https://paynalton.tech/en/topics/lectura-amor/"
    }
  ],
  "body": "<div>\n\n\n\n</div>\n\n*\"The knight of the sad figure\"*, Don Alonso Quijana suffered from the most beautiful of all madnesses, which, for the first time, I began to understand.<br><br>It is a madness that led him to change his name to *Don Quixote of the Mancha*. His greedy mind, eager for fantasy, adventure, and dangers that a simple life as a hidalgo had denied him, led him to see giants where once there had been windmills, armies where there had only been sheep, and even castles where others saw only shops.<br><br>Nearly a year of adventures took him from the depths of the earth in the cave of Montesinos to the most beautiful of beaches, where a mysterious figure, the \"*Knight of the White Moon*\", brought his journey to an end.<br><br>A few days ago, fate allowed me to know his madness. Carrying in my arms the beautiful book of Cervantes, I went in search of a distressed princess, as real and beautiful as Dulcinea herself.<br><br><br><br>The bus that took me through the rugged paths across the mountains became the adventure itself. Before my eyes, I saw myself guided by fate to the mountains of fire that glowed with their reddish and fiery hue.<br><br>A silver Ada gave me courage until a wicked witch who passed by me, leaving behind a trail of souls trapped in the underworld, enchanted her and transformed her into a creature of brilliant yellow that vanished forever.<br><br>The shadows took over the world and in the darkness I found myself among a legion of spiders, as big as dogs, with bright green eyes, like the seat numbers of the bus, and nearby, motionless, the queen of the spiders, with each leg as big as a mountain. I passed in silence, hoping not to wake the queen.<br><br>After thousands of trials that left not only my body, but also my soul exhausted, I found myself just steps away from my princess, but fate played a trick on me. Just steps away and with no way out, it was a stranger and good friend who helped me overcome the final test and, finally, in the middle of the darkness, I found her sitting in a pew, bent over the pain I had made disappear with a gentle kiss of love.<br><br>She looked at me and simply said, \"*You didn't have to come*.\" But that's exactly what knights do, rescuing princesses and undoing grievances.<br><br>Triumphant, I returned home. The darkness had disappeared and the mountains that gleamed in fire at sunset are now green and beautiful. But fate had one more test in store for me.<br><br>In this final test there were no dangers of death nor insurmountable obstacles, just one lesson to learn: \"*When the battle is over, when the princess is safe, the knight returns home. Then the knight is no longer a knight, just another man trying to survive one more day*.\"<br><br>And so, what was for others just a 12-hour round trip by bus, was for me the greatest and most quixotic adventure.<br><br>A journey on foot and wings, nothing to do with one in **wheel**....**I am a Wheel!!! I Can Roll!!!**<br>**<br>**<br>**I am the Man of the Silver Mountain!!!**\n"
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