The Mistranslation of Donning Quixote

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There is a joke in here where Donning Quixote says that seven times nine is 73. Grossman notes that this may have been an intentional, you know, just a little joke about it. Who got the movie rights? Good question. It was everyone. Listen, we don't have movies yet, but when we do, we are going to get these rights. Got a lot of them down.

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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