From a reader:

Jonah,
Talk about random, but I’m reading Don Quixote for the first time (I’m 28,
but didn’t get to read much classic literature in school) and today at lunch
I happened across the very dog story that you copied into the Corner today.
I don’t read DQ every day, and then only about 15 pages at a time, so what a
very odd coincidence. Thanks for explaining the moral, as I found it a bit
puzzling when encountering it in DQ. Although I also found it interesting
that you didn’t include the last line of the story, since it pertains to
your current profession. The man also says, “You think it’s easy to write a
book?”
Keep up the good work and I’ll buy you’re book when it comes out, so keep
plugging away at it.