This story has come up in a variety of contexts in the last two days, so I took today's quote from Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's Don Quixote, written in the early 17th century.In the following passage, Sancho Panza has just asked his friend how he could be a knight on a quest without having a reason that drove him to it. Other knights, says Sancho, have clear motivation...
'That's exactly it,' replied Don Quixote, 'that's just how beautifully I've worked it all out -- because for a knight errant to go crazy for good reason, how much is that worth? My idea is to become a lunatic for no good reason at all, and to ask my lady, seeing what I do without cause, what she imagines I might do if I really had one?'
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