{"date":"September 26","id":"09-26","intro":["The gaunt lunatic, Don Quixote, saw the world through glasses colored with romanticism that had gone out of style hundreds of years before he was born. Cervantes made the world laugh at the exaggerated stories it had been devouring."],"minutes":14,"readings":[{"author":"Miguel de Cervantes","end":35,"start":29,"volume":14,"work":"Don Quixote"}],"slug":"september-26","status":"proofread","title":"And the World Rocked with Laughter","url":"/harvard-classics/september-26/","words":2759}