Chapter 6 of Don Quixote feels like the world’s first literary intervention, where people try to fix madness by attacking the books instead of understanding the man.
They go through his books like a trial — judging, saving some, burning others — as if the stories themselves are guilty.
But it’s almost ironic: they treat books with more seriousness than the man who read them.
For me, it shows how uncomfortable people are with someone living in a different reality — so they try to erase it, instead of asking why it exists.