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Tonight, we'll be reading the second part to Miguel de Servantes Don Quixote, written in the early 1600s of Spain, Don Quixote is considered

to be perhaps the most influential work from Spanish history.

It depicts a nobleman who reads so many romantic adventure novels that he decides to become

a knight. In part one we read chapter one where Don Quixote

decides to become a night and sets about in preparation for his adventure. He fashions a homemade suit of armor and cardboard

names his old frail horse, Rosinante, and officially proclaims a pretty village girl named Aldonza Lorenzo to be in

nightly love with.

He renames her D'Alcinea del Toboso. He has never actually met her. She may or may not actually exist. Just.

Let's get cozy.

close your eyes.

Relax your body.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

Chapter 2, which treats of the first Sally the ingenious Don Quixote made from home.

These preliminaries settled. He did not care to put off any longer the execution of his design.

Urged on to it by the thought of all the world was losing by his delay, seeing what wrongs he intended

to write, grievances to redress, injustices to repair, abuses to remove, and duties to discharge.

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