
On Don Quixote and the Book of Mormon
Contemporary U.S. perceptions of Miguel de Cervantes’s 1605 novel Don Quixote are heavily filtered through the 1965 Broadway musical Man of La Mancha, whose big show-stopper “Dream the Impossible Dream” (featured most recently in the trailer for John Wick: Chapter 3) creates the impression that the novel’s thesis is that the world can be changed by those who dare to dream, or some such.