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four or five men on horseback,
Good to know (?) question
“Either I am deceived,
Haha
That is stupider than I thought him capable of, simple minded or not. Question
two servants of the friars
Where did they me from? Question.
The servants had no sense of humor
Haha
a Basque,
“Now you will see, said Agrajes,”
the mule, utterly exhausted and not made for such foolishness, could not take another step.
Haha
Haha - Cervantes becomes a character in his own story.
if they had entirely hit the mark, the combatants would have been cut and split in half from top to bottom and opened like pomegranates;
Haha - vivid simile
purpose was not only to record their deeds, but to depict their slightest thoughts and fancies,
I blamed the malignity of Time, the devourer and consumer of all things, who had either hidden it away or consumed it.
paragon of Manchegan chivalry,
these calamitous times
bearing all their virginity on their backs,
Haha - as if so much baggage they’re forced to carry around with them
a maiden could, in days of yore, after eighty years of never once sleeping under a roof, go to her grave as pure as the day her mother bore her.
Haha
Haha
the almost two hours of entertainment and pleasure the attentive reader may derive from it.
the Alcaná market in Toledo,
Arabic.
Dulcinea of Toboso,
had the best hand for salting pork of any woman in all of La Mancha.’”
Haha
Cide Hamete Benengeli,
Haha - as shrewd as a Jew.
Don Sancho de Azpetia,
Don Quixote.
an appearance so obviously consumptive,
Rocinante.
Sancho Zancas,
no history is bad if it is true.
Haha - profound (but does not account for literary quality or lack of it).
the people of that nation are very prone to telling falsehoods,
Haha
the path of the truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, repository of great deeds, witness to the past, example and adviser to the present, and forewarning to the future.
the dog who was its author
Arabs
fortune, which had greater things in store for Don Quixote,
our Manchegan
the Basque began to bleed from his nose, mouth, and ears
Haha
adventures not of ínsulas but of crossroads,
Haha - Roger Ascham on Le Morte D’Arthur: nothing within but open manslaughter and bold bawdry.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/sexual-culture-in-the-literature-of-medieval-britain/open-manslaughter-and-bold-bawdry-male-sexuality-as-a-cause-of-disruption-in-malorys-morte-darthur/BFD53FB2AC05FF4FA1D0FC09C04F78C3#
I shall save you from the hands of the Chaldeans,
Hat is the reference here? Ancient people renowned for astronomy, Semitic language related to Aramaic, or a member of the Nestorian (Syrian) church? Question
Haha
Haha
Haha
Haha simile
“If that is true,”
Haha
the great Marquis of Mantua
Haha
I have a good model to emulate; the same thing happened in exactly the same way with regard to the helmet of Mambrino, which cost Sacripante7 so dearly.”
