Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

muledrivers of Arévalo,

according to the author of this history, who makes particular mention of this muledriver because he knew him very well;

Cide Hamete Benengeli

it seemed to him that all the inns where he stayed were castles—and

His imagination actively transmutes all ordinary sights and facts into glorious romance. See below ….

he considered this entire fantasy, which he had invented, as solid and true,

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he depicted her in his imagination as having the form and appearance of another princess he had read about in his books

they were enough to make any man who was not a muledriver vomit;

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that talk, which he could not understand,

O gawd

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he struggled to his feet, threw his arms around Maritornes, and the two of them began the fiercest and most laughable scuffle the world has ever seen.

so much harmony.

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Proverbial

the old Holy Brotherhood of Toledo,

seeing that the man he had seized did not move or stir, he assumed he was dead and that those in the room were his killers,

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either I understand little, or this castle is enchanted.

Haha - the former

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the other hidden things

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I’m not a knight errant and don’t ever plan to be one, and so I get the worst of all our calamities!”

Terrible

When the officer heard this, he thought Sancho was out of his mind,

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test the virtue of what he imagined to be the precious balm,

the balm of Fierabrás,

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with a good amount of trust and even greater optimism, he gulped the potion down

the poor squire began to erupt from both channels,

Haha ewww

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Terrible

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my profession is none other than to defend those who are defenseless, and to avenge those who are wronged, and to punish malfeasance.

since it is not a castle but an inn, what you can do now is forgive the debt,

“That has nothing to do with me,” responded the innkeeper. “Pay me what you owe me, and leave off your stories and chivalries; I don’t care about anything but earning my living.”

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people who were good-natured, well-intentioned, rough-mannered, and playful,

Haha “the sky’s the limit” - same in Spanish? Question

He saw him going up and down in the air with so much grace and speed that if his wrath had permitted it, I think he would have laughed.

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Maritornes,

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it had been at the expense of his usual guarantor, which was his back.

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Lefthanded Juan Palomeque.

The Knight of the Blazing Sword,

Emperor Alifanfarón,

Are all of these made up by Cervantes? By Quixote? Is Cervantes pretending that DQ actually read all these stories? And knows all these details by heart? Question see fn 2 and “for all of them he improvised armor, colors, legends, and devices, carried along by the imagination of his unheard-of madness” on p. 127.

Pentapolín of the Tucked-up Sleeve,

Cf. Sir Gareth = "Beaumains" Cf. Beren in The Silmarillion: as they escaped from Angband, the great wolf Carcharoth, whom Morgoth had personally bred, awoke. Beren held out the Silmaril, hoping that its radiance would avert the beast, but he was mistaken. Carcharoth bit off his hand, swallowing it along with the Silmaril, and proceeded to run rampant through Doriath. Thus Beren was called Erchamion, "One-handed".

“By my beard,” said Sancho, “Pentapolín is doing just the right thing, and I’m bound to help him any way I can!”

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in his imagination he saw what he did not see and what was not there,

legend that reads: Meow,

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the two hosts, which he was imagining,

for all of them he improvised armor, colors, legends, and devices, carried along by the imagination of his unheard-of madness,

Persians,