Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Tantalus

Sisyphus

Tityus

Ixion

Haha

there is nothing that does not vex the absent lover,

Haha

Marcela,

O savage basilisk

Arruns L. f. Tarquinius, the brother of Tarquin the Proud, married Tullia, the younger daughter of Servius Tullius. His wife was ambitious, while he was not; his equally ambitious brother had married Tullia's demure elder sister. Lucius and Tullia murdered their spouses, and married one another.

She’s a philosopher

because of the love you show me, you claim that I am obliged to love you in return.

in the event the two are equally beautiful, it does not mean that their desires are necessarily equal,

not all beauties fall in love;

since beautiful subjects are infinite, desires would have to be infinite, too.

beauty in the chaste woman is like a distant fire or sharp-edged sword: they do not burn or cut the person who does not approach them.

Haha - Zing!

I am a distant fire and a far-off sword.

discouragement should not be taken for disdain.

contemplate the beauty of heaven and the steps whereby the soul travels to its first home.”

Neo-platonic ideal

Haha - of course

The pitiless hand of cruel beauty killed him, extending the power of love’s tyranny.

Sevilla

Cide Hamete Benengeli

Three, counting Rocinante

This was how arrogant the poor gentleman was after his defeat of the valiant Basque.

Haha

rain down

such cloudbursts;

Haha

I would let myself die here of sheer annoyance.”

Haha

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Amadís of Gaul

Arcalaus,

Haha ewww

if he had not been helped in those dire straits by a wise man who was a great friend of his,

holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes

And Lancelot rode in a cart.

Amadís

Beltenebros,

they had come to the inn,

Haha - no mistaking the narrator’s Reality.

an Asturian girl with a broad face, a back of the head that was flat, a nose that was snubbed, and one eye that was blind, while the other was not in very good condition.

A mock? Question

4 and a half feet tall - a dwarf: sometimes defined as an adult height of less than 147 centimetres (4 ft 10 in), regardless of sex;

Hunch-backed? Question

Maritornes,

words of the wandering knight,

Is there a “formal” or old-fashioned Spanish to suggest what English does with its “thee and thou” constructions when D.Q. is speaking formally?

their own innlike words

The muledriver

Maritornes