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Tales of Curiosity

Four hundred years ago – in 1615 – the second part of the Don Quixote was published. But there is something else to be announced.

And this is something more hidden. And this I am saying not only to make you readers curious.
It’s the Story of the Ill-Advised Curiosity from the Don Quixote (first part) that draftsman Rob Davis has also – I have checked it – adapted for his graphic novel version of the Don Quixote.

This adaption – it might not be as complex as the actual novella – thus forms part of the most recent version of that most famous novel. And in times of Ashley Madison Gate (I believe that in a couple of years we will have books, novels, and films on that affair) it might be interesting to point to a classic story about love, friendship and the question whether one should test a human being, if one already does trust that human being.

If testing does mean: hacking into someone’s computer is another question (and if the hackers were acting also on behalf of people’s own secret wishes is again another question). But if the story from the Don Quijote is one a most complex ›microstory‹, a microcosmos of human behaviour (don’t miss also the ›alphabet of love‹ sequence, not adapted by Davis), every single story behind Ashley Madison data breach might form such a microstory, and all of them together a cluster, a macrocosmos, a sum of human behaviour, human relations. And probably: a large scale human desaster, unseen in its dimensions, that will affect all participants lives (including also the lives of hackers).

If Ashley Madison had been available in times of Cervantes (or Ariosto) perhaps the story had been staged within such setting, that is: staged inside the world of online platforms and inside the imaginations surrounding such platforms.
Future writers and directors – do study the Story of Ill-Advised Curiosity as well (or adapt it, as Giovanni Morelli, we have mentioned it in chapter Interlude II of our book on Morelli, had planned to adapt that story for the 19th century stage). The games people play are beautifully summed up and rendered. And the many questions raised include also the one crucial question: Is one supposed to dig into people’s minds that deep or not. To seek for truths or to find what you may think could be the truth. Because what you may find in the end might also be a consequence of your own digging all too deep. Into peoples minds. Or into their computers.

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