![]() You believe in them just as much as he did in his books. ![]() ∻ut you continue to read those old books of theology. Ive never read a book of chivalry in my life. He believed in all those books of chivalry, quite out of date even in his day. You know, father, you remind me of your ancestor. There are small bits of useless knowledge which stick to ones brain like barnacles to a boat. Belief dies away like desire for a woman. God, the Trinity, the Immaculate Conception. ∺ll the same you do believe all that nonsense. I have read more books, that is all, when I was studying, but one forgets. Oh, I am as ignorant as anyone in the parish. Who knows what he thinks at night in his bed when he has said his prayers? I doubt if anyone is ever fully converted. To preach to the converted as you do here? ![]() How Monsignor Quixote Set Off on His Travels If there were no heretics, Teresa, there would be little for a priest to do. So many of his prayers had remained unanswered that he had hopes that this one prayer of his had lodged all the time like wax in the Eternal ear. They travel in an aging, cranky automobile, called Rocinante of course! His Sancho is the Communist former mayor of the village, who shares a surname with the Dons squire. Father Quixote is the priest of El Toboso and a purported descendant of the Don. Monsignor Quixote is set in post-Franco Spain. ![]()
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