A Quote from Don Quixote

[David Morris]

This quote (I don’t have chapter/verse, so, no, heretical me, I haven’t
verified its bona fides) was sent without further comment besides the
headline supplied by the sender to the Pynchon group, r/ThomasPynchon, on
Reddit, and I thought it was fantastic, and must be already well known
before I saw it yesterday.  The metaphor of a tapestry was exactly,
specifically what I felt I’d just read after finishing GR my first time.

*A Quote from Don Quixote that Pynchon might have had in Mind*

“*And if this is done in a pleasing style and with ingenious invention, and
is drawn as close as possible to the truth, it no doubt will weave a cloth
composed of many different and beautiful threads, and when it is finished,
it will display such perfection and beauty that it will achieve the
greatest goal of any writing, which, as I have said, is to teach and
delight at the same time. Because the free writing style of these books
allows the author to show his skills as an epic, lyric, tragic, and comic
writer, with all the characteristics contained in the sweet and pleasing
sciences of poetry and rhetoric; for the epic can be written in prose as
well as in verse.*”