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A Knight in Winter; Seventeen Days of Reading 'Don Quixote'

FEB 12. It's still snowing. I wander around the apartment. I watch the snow. I drink a cup of tea. It's as good a time as any to pick up Edith Grossman's 2003 translation of Don Quixote.

On the second page, Don Quixote loses his mind. I stay in bed all afternoon, reading and laughing.

FEB 13. I feel a kind of wild happiness as I turn the pages of this book. Out the window of the library, the world is a melting mess.

Poor Don Quixote, getting tangled up with a wretched prostitute whose breath "undoubtedly smelled of yesterday's stale salad."

FEB 14. The faces on the subway are closed up and bleak, pressed into tabloids, prayer books, A Million Little Pieces, or gazing off into tangled, ...

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