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There is something familiar about them. Are they inspired by Star Wars?

The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers. Sounds interesting, Sancho!

In fact they´ve already met here:

Congrats for finishing this masterpiece for the second time, Sancho!I think that among other things Don Quixote is about preserving ones humanity, even if all odds are against it. Thus to be able to...

Lol, delightful! I think however one of the prior aims of part two is to remind the readers that there is a fake version and to mark the difference between both.

Lol, this one is current here too! I remember Sancho being a governor of an island and a good one but not that it was for only ten days.

Maybe the Quixote (at least the part about the island)...

It has been a pleasure, Sancho. I wish I would have been able to contribute more.
If you feel inspired sometime visit or revisit the Pickwick Papers. I think you will like Sam Weller in spite of...

Wonderful post Sancho. I dimly remember the Duke and the Duchess having their fun with the adventurous pair. D Quixote also appears as you showed as a much more ambiguous character in this second...

Poor Moby Dick. Thought I would be bored by it, but I enjoyed the book very much. Not on account of the whaling, but because it depicts the epic adventure with intensity

Thanks for understanding, Sancho. I go on but by bits.

And even so you found time to finish the second part of the Quixote, congrats!

Lol!Melville wrote two more door stoppers. I think one of...

Sorry Sancho for the late answer. Eyes not so well these days. I agree with you that Cervantes must have lost some readership with part II. Even today, many of the people I know that read the...

I´ve been wondering if the pair Quixote and Sancho weren´t inspired also by the theater of the period. Until it got more democratic the theater used to assign "tragedy" seen as something noble,...

Lol! Had to do a bit of research

https://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/lifestyle/talk-like-a-true-aussie-top-10-aussie-sayings-and-what-they-mean/news-story/d216f699ddee5bd0ed643d9244a336be

So...

I wasn't sure if I had seen Dumb and Dumber, so I looked it up.It was apropriately translated as "Debi e Loide" which names together form the word debiloide, someone with a very weak intellect. The...

Nor do I, Sancho. But it might be an ironic reference to the medieval Spanish hero El Cid, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cid. Fighting with Christians and Muslims El Cid became the great national...

Lol! I used to call him Cid Biringela, when I read the book. I think at the time there was a general invoking of old manuscripts. Cervantes may be poking fun also at the fascinating travelers and...

Sadly, my on line version is without any prologue at all so I thank you for your information and the quotes, Sancho. I would have liked to know how Ormsby translated "podenco".

As you enjoyed the...

If I wasn´t sure Cervantes at botton liked dog and only wrote those dog stories because he was enraged at Avellaneda's interference with his novel, I would as people say today, instantly unfollow and...

Here in the own words of translator John Ormsby:
"He had got as far as Chapter LIX, which at his leisurely pace he could hardly have reached before October or November 1614, when there was put into...

You are a very fast reader, Sancho. I remember taking ages in finishing that first volume of the Quixote.

Maybe now there is the moment to mention that besides the "internal meddlers" that so to...

And a quite forgot that splendid Marcela not to speak of Luscinda.She must have been one of the first female activists to speak their minds that "no is no".When one sees this valiant characters of...

I particularly like this episode of the night outdoors (not really an episode because actually nothing happens outside the fertile imagination of the knight) but it is this lack of action that points...

I don't remember the part about the ear, Sancho. But if it is the same episode, he is very bothered about the noises he hears during the night.

Lol! if he did he wouldn´t have been who he was. I think the Quixote is also a book about to what extent a man permits his perception to cheat him. I remember there is one (of many) episode that...

I`ve been looking into Cervantes family to sheck that information, but the results are very meager. Apart from their names little seems to be known about them. He had a illegitimate daughter with one...