Don Quixote of La Mancha, Part Two

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In the early chapters of part two, don quixote introduces a new character named samson carrasco. In real life, during the ten years that it took cervantes to write his second book, a person who goes by the pseudonym of alonso fernandes de velaneda published his own second part ofDon Quixote. So there's this unauthorized part too floating around. Miguel cervantes is very annoyed by it, i'm assuming.

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Thanks to Nick Hakim for the use of his song "The Light".

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