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Editorial

All The World’s A Text?

by Rick Lewis

Our cover shows Don Quixote riding with his faithful squire Sancho Panza. Cervantes’ 1605 tale, the first modern novel, tells the story of a retired country gentleman who spends his nights in his library, immersed in stories of chivalry and knightly derring-do. Eventually losing his mind due to lack of sleep, he believes himself to be the knight Don Quixote, puts on an old suit of armour and an improvised helmet, mounts an old nag and sets out with a long-suffering neighbour on a quest to rescue his true love. His subsequent adventures include attacks on windmills, which he mistakes for giants. Touching and hilarious; yet Stefán Snaevarr examines the view of philosophers such as Alasdair MacIntyre and Paul Ricoeur that all our lives, like that of Don Quixote, are made up of a myriad of stories.

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