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Pyrenees
Apennines;
Lord save me! What a number of provinces he mentioned and nations he named, attributing to each one, with marvelous celerity, the characteristics that belonged to it, so absorbed and immersed was he in his lying books!
Narrator’s ejaculation. An intrusion.
The hallucinations are aural as well and visual and imaginative.
Terrible gawd
that thieving wise man, who is my enemy, can make things disappear and seem to be what they are not.
Haha simile
All these squalls to which we have been subjected are signs that the weather will soon improve and things will go well for us,
Haha
one can infer that the lance never blunted the pen, nor the pen the lance.”
Haha
Simile haha
dentation is to be valued much more than diamonds.
Simile haha YES!
Haha - always blaming
they had an adventure that,
really did seem to be one.
Haha
The men in mourning, caught up and swaddled in their soutanes and cassocks, could not move;
“No doubt about it, this master of mine is as courageous and brave as he says.”
licentiate
I am only a bachelor,
Alonso López;
it was a great misadventure for me to run across a man who is seeking adventures.”
More blame - always the blame
Error - haha
beg their pardon for the offense against them, which it had not been in his power to avoid committing.
The Knight of the Sorrowful Face.”
1620 Shelton “rueful countenance”[1]
1700 Motteux “woeful figure”
1742 Jervas “sorrowful figure”
1755 Smollett “rueful countenance”
1885 Ormsby “rueful countenance”
1949 Putnam “mournful countenance”
1950 Cohen “sad countenance”
1957 Starkie “rueful figure”
1996 Raffel “sad face”
2003 Rutherford “sorry face”
2005 Grossman “sorrowful face”
https://franklycurious.com/wp/2015/10/03/don-quixote-and-his-sorry-face-translation-comparison/
For more translation issues and examples:
https://franklycurious.com/wp/don-quixote-english/
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Haha - thinking of his jaw and loss of teeth.
the wise man whose task it will be to write the history of my deeds
Who is the wise man? Question. Before he was the enemy, p. 131, and see other appearances.
Haha a mock at religion
Haha
To find water, a hiker heads down to a lower elevation. Question
Haha
the Platirs, Tablants, Olivants, and Tirants, the Phoebuses and Belianises,
our village priest,
just as greed makes the sack burst, it has torn my hopes apart when they were brightest for getting that wretched, ill-starred ínsula your grace has promised me so often;
the lore I learned when I was a shepherd tells me it’s less than three hours till dawn,
Haha good one
A mock of storytelling!
Lope Ruiz,
Torralba,
Haha
Haha
the man who told me this story said it was so true and correct that I certainly could, when I told it to somebody else, affirm and swear that I had seen it all.
Haha
Haha
