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Chapter 6. Don Quixote’s friends and family decide to burn his books of chivalry, the source of his madness. This feels an invasion, destroying something which ought to be precious to Don Quixote without his knowledge. The way in which they decide which books to burn and which to keep seems entirely arbitrary.

“The distinction between form and content is ultimately an illusion.” Form is content, content is form

“Interpretation thus presupposes a discrepancy between the clear meaning of a text and the demands of (later) readers. It seeks to resolve that discrepancy.”