Popular Culture Review Vol. 7, No. 2, August 1996 | Page 53

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RE- C O G N I T I O N S

In Don Quixote’s case, the
auspicious community of the
wise and the sane took it upon
themselves to judge his books
and to bum them. Cervante’s
chilling parody of the Spanish
Inquisition is echoed by our
own contemporary
experiences with forces of Law
and Order and by the current
and recent Administration's
attempts to protect us from
dangerous ideas and
information,
for our own g ood....
It greatly upset the other
members of Don Quixote’s
family and his community to
learn that he had chosen to
believe in himself (92-93).