A Real Character

By Robert Hill

A modern-day man finds himself immersed within the adventures of Don Quixote - so much so, that he has found himself trapped within the character of Quixote's fictional sidekick, Sancho Panza. Try as he might, he cannot seem to get himself out of the fictional body of the character and out of the story. Stuck in a fictional world where he questions his own sanity, he is forced to carry on with the delusional adventures of Don Quixote de La Mancha, hoping that some day his true self will close the book and bring him back to reality.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robert Hill
• Release date: Mar 22, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370234004

Robert Hill

Robert Hill grew up in South Wales, United Kingdom. He had a happy childhood, carefree and safe, a childhood which seems vanishingly rare in today’s world; it was a time when children left the house along with the rest of their siblings early in the morning and were given the instruction ‘don’t come home till teatime’. This allowed him and the rest of the kids in the street the whole world – well, the local world – to be his playground. This is where his stories come from: a keen sense of adventure with an inquisitive mind and a willingness to meet and accept others for all their differences.

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A Real Character

(Episode Two of Lost In La Mancha)

Robert Hill

Copyright 2018 by Robert Hill

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Glancing at the lanky old Spaniard riding upon his withered horse, I noticed he looked somewhat downtrodden. I suspected that our previous engagement with the windmills (or were they really four-armed giants, as Quixote claimed) had dampened his otherwise robust spirit for adventure. But no, it was not entirely that at all.

I remember reading of the knight, Diego Perez de Vargas, Quixote then said, "who having shattered his sword in battle, tore from an oak a heavy bough. With it did he commit such feats of bravery, and beaten so many Moors, that he came to