Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, Chapter 1, Paragraph 4

In short, his wits being quite gone, he hit upon the strangest notion that ever madman in this world hit upon, and that was that he fancied it was right and requisite, as well for the support of his own honour as for the service of his country, that he should make a knight-errant of himself, roaming the world over in full armour and on horseback in quest of adventures, and putting in practice himself all that he had read of as being the usual practices of knights-errant; righting everykindof wrong, and exposing himself to peril and danger from which, in the issue, he was to reap eternal renown and fame. Already the poor man saw himself crowned by the mightof his arm Emperor of Trebizond at least; and so, led away by the intense enjoyment he found in these pleasant fancies, he set himself forthwith to put his scheme into execution.

TIM-ELVIS' OBSERVATIONS ON EACH SENTENCE OF PARAGRAPH 4:

Whew! This is a much shorter paragraph than the first three. Cervantes must have been catching his breath. We will whip through this puppy in no time.

Sentence one: Other than actually having punctuation, James Joyce would have been proud of how long this sentence is. Now that Quesadilla's clock was stuck on Cuckoo, he became fixated on becoming a knight himself. This would involve dressing in armor and prancing about the countryside looking for trouble with a capital "T." He knew it would be dangerous, but it would also be a way to be famous (this is a similar delusion shared by the people who try out for American Idol and shoot famous people).

Sentence two and the last sentence in this paragraph: Before even doing anything, Quesadilla pictured himself being knighted for his exploites by the Emperor of Trebizond (an empire that had long since disappeared by the time Quesadilla was having his delusions). This excited him so much he actually began taking steps to act out his fantasy.

I don't know about you, but that paragraph was just too short to be entirely satisfying. Oh well, as Scarlett Ohara said in Gone with the Wind, "Tomorrow is another day."