Don Quixote de La Mancha (Miguel de Cervantes, 1605)

Second of the Seven Stories

 

“The LORD said to Moses,
‘Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten
can look at it and live.’ So Moses made a bronze snake and
put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake
and looked at the bronze snake, he lived.”
– Numbers 21, in the Torah

Dean Kermit Allison, sculptor of the Quixote that looks toward Dulcinea from deep in the valley of Engelbrecht (Broken Angel), affixes the snake to the pole of Quixote’s lance. It is with this lance that Quixote attacks the Windmill.