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Quotation from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
“In short, he became so absorbed in his books that he spent his nights from sunset to sunrise, and his days from dawn to dark, poring over them; and what with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits”
Don Quixote, Part I, Ch. 1, trans. John Ormsby (1885)
The narrator's humoral explanation of Don Quixote's madness: sleeplessness and study dry out the brain.
Citation: "In short, he became so absorbed in his books that he spent his nights from sunset to sunrise, and his days from dawn to dark, poring over them; and what with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits" — Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part I, Ch. 1, trans. John Ormsby (1885). (id don-quixote-q2)
Portrait: Portrait of Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra (1547-1615), Attributed to Juan de Jáuregui, Public domain.
