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"The poet is a madman lost in the adventure, Who restlessly dreams of the ancient battles,
Of fabled exploits made multitudinous lessons, Then sings for himself & future generations."
[« Le poète est un fou perdu dans l'aventure, Qui rêve sans repos de combats anciens,
De fabuleux exploits sans nombre qu'il fait siens, Puis chante pour soi-même et la race future. »]
Paul Verlaine, Torquato Tasso, Premiers vers, 1864.

Osamu Tezuka, Barbara, manga cover
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Vita de Vie — Fetish
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"WITHOUT making any boast of it Sancho Panza succeeded in the course of years, by feeding him a great number
of romances of chivalry and adventure in the evening and night hours, in so diverting from himself his demon,
whom he later called Don Quixote, that this demon thereupon set out, uninhibited, on the maddest exploits, which,
however, for the lack of a preordained object, which should have been Sancho Panza himself, harmed nobody. A free
man, Sancho Panza philosophically followed Don Quixote on his crusades, perhaps out of a sense of responsibility,
and had of them a great and edifying entertainment to the end of his days."
Franza Kafka, The Truth about Sancho Panza, trans. Willa & Edwin Muir, 1917.

Barbara wonders about Varric's muse & here finds a distraction from previous obsession with mannequin Aveline.