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The Quixotic Sand-Windmill Compromise

The blazing sun beat down on the castle-less shoreline, a cruel mockery of the joy it once brought Don Quixote. Since it had recently become illegal to build sandcastles in Spain, as a result of some baffling municipal decree, naturally, our hidalgo-knight-errant decided to happily tilt at sand windmills...…

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Former diplomat and globetrotter, Dan Costinas is a versatile contemporary writer, translator, and editor. A true polyglot, he has authored and contributed to several dozen books spanning mainly fiction, essays, aphorisms, reviews and criticism, journalism, and poetry.

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From the quiet shelves of forty-four national archives and ancient university libraries to the cosy corners of independent bookstores and modest home…

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