I enjoy reading a good novel like Moby-Dick.  Do you read novels?
Nice choice, and yes i do.  I thouroughly enjoyed Don Quixote, which is considered the first novel in the modern era, around 1605 AD.
Really?  I didn't know that Don Quixote was considered the first novel.  What is that about?  
It is about a guy who reads so many romance novels that he loses his sanity and sets out to set right all the problems of the world.
Almost like an Alfred Hitchcock kind of story.  Interesting.  How does it end?
Not like Hitchcock's Psycho, that's for sure.  Psycho deals with the aftermath of a chance encounter between a thief and a motel manager.
Yes.  I remember that one.  Alfred Hitchcock was really an unusual and talented guy.
(1955–1965).
Born in Leytonstone, Essex, Hitchcock entered the film industry in 1919 as a title card designer after training as a technical clerk and copy writer for a telegraph-cable company. He made his directorial debut with the silent film "The Pleasure Garden" (1925). His first successful film, "" (1927), helped to shape the thriller genre, while his 1929 film, "Blackmail", was the first British "". Two of his 1930s thrillers, "The 39
youth; and three about "Don Quixote", in two of which Don Quixote is identified with Christ, creating an aesthetic synthesis of two figures that are a symbolic constant along Domínguez's artistic biography. In these two drawings, Don Quixote appears with a crown of thorns or a halo, and with his hand raised in the act of blessing. Both drawings are called "I Know Who I Am", in reference to some intriguing words pronounced by Don Quixote in chapter V of the first part of Cervantes' novel