A person · 1605 · Early modern
Don Quixote
An old man who reads so many books about chivalry that he goes out to live as a knight, against all evidence.
The founding case of a reader who mistakes a book for a world and then lives in it anyway. The whole book's plot is the argument that a person can be entirely sincere about a bond with something that is not there, and the reader is not asked to think less of him for it.
Application. One-sided attachment put to work on purpose. Creator economies, community, fandom as infrastructure, and the things that genuinely help people. Not automatically good - a tool with an obvious use is a tool that will also get a bad one.
Where it sits
1500 1500-1699 · 1605 1699
Provenance · 1 source record(s)
- needs-sourceCervantes, Don Quixote, part one 1605, part two 1615.Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, Don Quixote, 1605 and 1615.
CHARACTER The written character
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