awareness. Machiavelli’s abstraction of the entity of personal 
power from the social matrix was comparable to the much 
earlier abstraction of wheel  from animal form. Such abstraction 
ensures a great deal more movement. But the Shakespeare—
Cervantes vision is of the futility of such movement and of 
action deliberately framed on a fragmentary or specialist bias.

     W. B. Yeats has an epigram which puts the themes of 
King Lear  and Don Quixote  in cryptic form:

          Locke sank into a swoon
          The garden died
          God took the spinning jenny 
          Out of his side.

The Lockean swoon was the hypnotic trance induced by