ecargo2 Sep 2003

Maybe it's because I haven't read Cervantes in a million years, but I don't get this. Why does the Don have a forked tongue? What was the act that no author can leave unpunished? The head's dignity & honor? (Are we looking at a bust? a statue?) Why is romance's face false to its nature--and what is its nature?

Broad strokes but no defining features. What are you trying to say?

And Cervantes is famous to this day, so how did he "surrender his quill to oblivion"?