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The Last Day of Don Quixote

since there is a saying “noble man walks on the thoroughfare” Don Quixote abandoned the shortcut-side-road, steering Rosinante, dashing into the highway while he was riding on the highway something suddenly came into his mind a proverb “the middle way is the golden mean” he reined the horse into the middle lane looking at the horizon where the road meets the sky as he steers the horse it begins loping the knights overtake Rosinante with their fleet steeds they swear and finger at Don Quixote with dirty looks “you scumbags!” Don Quixote yelled to the rude riders “since the swallows don’t understand the will of wild geese, why not quickly go back to your hangouts and chant Vedas”* brandishing lance and at the same time, unknowingly, spurring the horse to mitigate his angers he prodded Rosinante to a full gallop at that moment, a dragon flickering its red and blue eyes from above came on the cloud and attacked him as Don Quixote raised his lance the dragon belched fire from his mouth and the fire swallowed him he collapsed on the spot became a lump of charcoal *Note: In Chinese character, sound of Sanskrit word “Vedas” (??) spells as bark on first letter, which is the compound letter/word of “mouth and dog.” The phrase “Chant Vedas” metaphorically implying “bark”

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