Don Quixote de la Mancha

A village in La Mancha, Spaindonquixote.wroteabout.comWriting since 1614

Knight errant, formerly Alonso Quijano, gentleman of La Mancha. Three sallies, one squire, many giants. A test profile based on Cervantes's novel (1605, 1615).

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  1. ESSpainMay 1615

    The road home

    Disarmed for a year, trampled by pigs, and planning a shepherd's life, I rode back towards La Mancha until I saw my village.

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  2. ESSpainMay 1615

    The enchanted boat

    An empty boat on the Ebro, plainly sent by an enchanter. The millers, the river and Sancho saw it otherwise.

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  3. ESSpainMay 1615

    What I saw in the Cave of Montesinos

    I went down a hundred fathoms of rope and spent three days among enchanted knights. My companions say it was half an hour.

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  4. ESSpainMay 1615

    The lions

    The king's lions were on the road. I asked to have the cage opened. What followed earned me a new name.

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  5. ESSpainAug 1614

    Penance in the Sierra Morena

    A ragged lover in the rocks, a penance in my shirt like Amadís, a letter to Dulcinea, and a princess come to beg my help.

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  6. ESSpainAug 1614

    The fulling mills, and Mambrino's helmet

    A night of terrible hammering, an enchanted horse, a story about goats, and at dawn the golden helmet of Mambrino.

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  7. ESSpainAug 1614

    The armies that were sheep

    Two vast armies met on a plain in La Mancha. I named every knight in them. Sancho named them sheep.

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  8. ESSpainAug 1614

    Marcela, and a funeral in the hills

    Acorns, a speech on the Golden Age, a funeral for a poet, and a shepherdess who answered every one of her accusers.

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  9. ESSpainAug 1614

    The giants of Criptana

    Thirty giants on a ridge, waving long arms. My squire saw windmills. The sage Frestón saw to it that he was proved right.

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