Tragic Sense Of Life Part 26

I hope, reader, that some time while our tragedy is still playing, in some interval between the acts, we shall meet again. And we shall recognize one another. And forgive me if I have troubled you more than was needful and inevitable, more than I intended to do when I took up my pen proposing to distract you for a while from your distractions. And may G.o.d deny you peace, but give you glory!

SALAMANCA, _In the year of grace_ 1912.

FOOTNOTES:

[59] "Que tal?" o "como va?" y es aquella que responde: "se vive!"

[60] Whenever I consider that I needs must die, I stretch my cloak upon the ground and am not surfeited with sleeping.

[61] No es consuelo de desdichas--es otra desdicha aparte--querer a quien las padece--persuadir que no son tales (_Gustos y diogustos no son nies que imagination_, Act I., Scene 4).

[62] _Don Quijote_, part i., chap, i.

[63] Preface.

[64] _El individualismo espanol_, in vol. clxxi., March 1, 1903.

[65] See _El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha_, part ii., chap. lviii., and the corresponding chapter in my _Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho_.

[66] In an article which was to have been published on the occasion of the ultimatum, and of which the original is in the possession of the Conde do Ameal. This fragment appeared in the Portuguese review, _A Aguia_ (No. 3), March, 1912.

[67] An allusion to the phrase in Calderon's _La Vida es Sueno_, "Que delito cometi contra vosotros naciendo?"--J.E.C.F.

[68] The wooden horse upon which Don Quixote imagined that he and Sancho had been carried in the air. See _Don Quijote_, part ii., chaps. 40 and 41.--J.E.C.F.

[69] _Don Quijote_, part ii., chap. 26.