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A Quixotic event

MADRID: Politicians, school children and even sailors at sea lined up on Tuesday to take part in a non-stop reading of Don Quixote — all 1,100 pages — in a two-day literary marathon. The seventh annual reading began in Madrid and, through telephone lines and videoconferences, was to leapfrog around Spain and the world, with stops in such unlikely spots as Hawaii and Vietnam. Each of an estimated 3,000 orators reads one paragraph or for a minute from Miguel de Cervantes' tale of a windmill-tilting dreamer and his trusty sidekick, Sancho Panza.

AP

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