He's a famous puppet master . . .

"He's a famous puppet master who's been traveling the Aragonese side of La Mancha for some time, showing a puppet play about Melisendra being freed by the famous Don Gaiferos, which is one of the best and best-acted histories seen in this part of the kingdom for many years. He also has with him a monkey with the rarest talent ever seen among monkeys or imagined among men, because if he's asked something, he pays attention to what he's asked, then jumps onto his master's shoulders and goes up to his ear and tells him the answer to the question, and then Master Pedro says what it is; he has much more to say about past things than about future ones, and even though he isn't right all othe time, he's not wrong most of the time, so he makes us think he has the devil in his body."

. . . Miguel de Cervantes (Trans. Edith Grossman) . . . Don Quixote . . . 624 . . .