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References to the author's own work should be couched in the third person. In view of some Cervantistas' recent reminder of Don Quixote 's original comic intent, we consider the laughter its reading should cause from the point of view of a psychosomatic involuntary reaction, whose characteristics force us to rethink the nature of literary experience. The parody of the books of chivalry leads to reification of the word, an extreme form of selfreferentiality. If we may use an anachronistic term, Cervantes seems to follow a hypertextual method of organizing his narrative, based on the iconographic condensation of stories which he then gives the necessary space for their development. The nobleman's old dream charges sign in the graph that says him and writes him, in the circular metaphor of a writing of its writing .