Don Quixote: A True History

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I was expecting the windmills to come way later and to be a bigger deal, I guess. Maybe that's just as far as most people got in Don Quixote and they put it down after that. That would suck. It's also, I guess, easier to relay though than all the stuff about Marcella. Even the sections where he fights people and tries to cast them as characters needs a little more explanation. We're like, this is just like, he thought some windmills weren't windmills and then he got hurt by it. And so yeah, then it ends with Sancho and Don quixote going off into the woods. It closes

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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