In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading from sunrise to sunset, and so with too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind. His fantasy filled with everything he had read in his books, enchantments as well as combats, battles, challenges, wounds, courtings, loves, torments, and other impossible foolishness, and he became so convinced in his imagination of the truth of all the countless grandiloquent and false inventions he read that for him no history in the world was truer. He would say that El Cid Ruy Díaz4 had

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The gentleman became so engrossed in his reading that he spent every night and day immersed in books, neglecting sleep. This excessive reading led to a deterioration of his mental state, as he absorbed countless imaginative tales filled with adventures, romances, and absurdities. His mind became overwhelmed with the fantasies he encountered, leading him to an unstable grasp of reality.

As his obsession deepened, he began to believe fervently in the fantastical narratives he had read, dismissing any history that contradicted his newfound convictions. He even claimed the legendary figure El Cid to be a fact of his own created reality. This complete immersion in fiction caused him to lose touch with the real world, illustrating the potential dangers of unchecked imagination and obsession within literature.

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