Don Quixote and the Innkeeper

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Don Quixote's armor is tied on with like green strings so good that nobody could untie the knots and Don Quixote won't let anybody cut the string. So he just has this stupid homemade kindergarten helmet on. To the point where they have to literally put fish in his mouth for him because he's holding up the visor. It's like a Will Ferrell sketch. God. But yes, the innkeeper's playing along. He's like, hey, I'll give you your knighthood if you spend the night outside walking aroundBecause we don't have a church here, I guess.

Welcome to our newest show-within-a-show! We're reading Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes a few chapters at a time. Some Patreon supporters get these episodes monthly, but every two months we'll combine them for general consumption.

These episodes cover Chapters 1-14.

In Episode 1, we do some table-setting on the author and translation, and then we dive into the first four chapters of the story. In Episode 2, our hero recruits the squire Sancho Panza and goes tilting after some windmills. Also we hear a whole story about a guy who died from lovesickness.

Join us as we meet this errant knight-errant!

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