Weary of his land of Spain, an old soldier of the king sought solace in Ariosto’s vast geographies, in that valley of the moon where misspent dream-time goes, and in the golden idol of Mohammed stolen by Montalban.
Jorge Luis Borges in Dreamtigers, Parable of Cervantes and Don Quixote (1955), translated by Mildred Boyer
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