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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