Don Quixote – Chapter XXXI – Summary
Love is imagination. Reality is… Sancho.
Don Quixote upgrades reality into poetry.
Sancho keeps accidentally downgrading it back to… wheat, sweat, and facts.
They talk about Dulcinea like she’s divine —
but one sees a goddess, the other saw her carrying grain.
Same person.
Different worlds.
I think this chapter brilliantly illustrates how stubbornly a person can cling to an imaginary world, while still keeping an eye on uncomfortable truths just enough to prevent damage to the ego.
Thanks Ma for the comment. 🙂
Maybe that’s the real tragedy of Don Quixote, not pure madness, but selective awareness.
Too much fantasy to live in reality, but too much reality to fully enjoy the fantasy.