Chapter 7 of Don Quixote feels like the start of a very bad business partnership powered entirely by confidence and poor judgment.
They remove the books, thinking the madness will fade.
Instead, he fills the gap with even stronger belief.
And now something shifts:
He doesn’t go alone anymore.
Sancho joins him — not because it makes sense,
but because the promise sounds good enough.
For me, this is where it becomes more dangerous.
It’s one thing to live inside your own story.
It’s another when someone else starts believing in it too.