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EDITOR’S PREFACE
closing sentence, I prefer to take as farewell words those immediately preceding—Fágaimís annsan iad— “Let us leave them there”! Leave the principal characters on the stage as the curtain rings down (for, although two of them are technically-speaking “off,” their reappearance is momentarily expected): Sancho seeking Don Quixote in the Sierra Morena, while the Priest and the Barber await the return of both. Leave them as Cervantes should have left them: Immortals—“deathless persons in an endless tale.”
CONALL CEARNAĊ.
