Yo he contraído el misterioso deber de reconstruir literalmente su obra espontánea. I have assumed the misterious obligation to reconstruct, word for word, the novel that for him was spontaneous. Componer el Quijote a principios del siglo diecisiete era una empresa razonable, necesaria, acaso fatal; a principios del veinte, es casi imposible. Composing the Quixote in the early seventeenth century was a reasonable, necessary, perhaps even inevitable undertaking; in the early twentieth, it is virtually impossible.

(start here) Once upon a time there was a system twice