19/08/2026
He awakens - it is the moment of the Desengaño. After many months of wandering, after fighting giants and rescuing damsels in distress, Don Quijote becomes, once again, Alonso Quijano. There is no longer a mental space - nor even spiritual - where the illusion can subsist, for he is now awakened to the world's sharpness - the succession of sufferings of Schopenhauer. He makes his peace with it, but he does not desire to live in it. Sancho, faithful friend, undergoes the opposite process. He desires to, once more, awaken the idealism. But Alonso Quijano is now too aware of the world, and sees not the embers of light through the window, but the dust that floats among them. Yes, he is at peace - but he does not desire it, he is incapable of living in the world of Desengaño, of mental lucidity, at the doors of materialism and rationalism, where dream and myth do not hold a place as more than words, and even then, so very faintly. So Alonso Quijano is no longer for this world. But there is still Sancho who, enveloped in his master's mystical journey of the mind, will have to follow his own process to individuation - and perhaps he, unlike Alonso Quijano, will not fall victim to the Desengaño.
Anyway, it's all just a thought.
