Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes, Chapter V, Paragraphs 9-11
To this the peasant answered, "Senor- sinner that I am!- cannot your worship see that I am not Don Rodrigo de Narvaez nor the Marquis of Mantua, but Pedro Alonso your neighbour, and that your worship is neither Baldwin nor Abindarraez, but the worthy gentleman Senor Quixada?"TIM-ELVIS' OBSERVATIONS ON PARAGRAPH 9:
The peasant tries to reason with Don Quixote. He tells him that he isn't the "Don Rodrigo" Don Quixote is calling him. His name is Pedro Alonso and he is Don Quixote's neighbor. And he points out that Don Quixote isn't any of the fictional charaters he is reciting poetry about. He is Senor Quixada.
"I know who I am," replied Don Quixote, "and I know that I may be not only those I have named, but all the Twelve Peers of France and even all the Nine Worthies, since my achievements surpass all that they have done all together and each of them on his own account."TIM-ELVIS' OBSERVATIONS ON PARAGRAPH 10:
Don Quixote replies that he "knows who he is" and that he isn't the knights he has been rambling about because he is essentially greater than all of them put together (someone has a pretty inflated opinion of himself).
With this talk and more of the same kind they reached the village just as night was beginning to fall, but the peasant waited until it was a little later that the belaboured gentleman might not be seen riding in such a miserable trim. When it was what seemed to him the proper time he entered the village and went to Don Quixote's house, which he found all in confusion, and there were the curate and the village barber, who were great friends of Don Quixote, and his housekeeper was saying to them in a loud voice, "What does your worship think can have befallen my master, Senor Licentiate Pero Perez?" for so the curate was called; "it is three days now since anything has been seen of him, or the hack, or the buckler, lance, or armour. Miserable me! I am certain of it, and it is as true as that I was born to die, that these accursed books of chivalry he has, and has got into the way of reading so constantly, have upset his reason; for now I remember having often heard him saying to himself that he would turn knight-errant and go all over the world in quest of adventures. To the devil and Barabbas with such books, that have brought to ruin in this way the finest understanding there was in all La Mancha!"TIM-ELVIS' OBSERVATIONS ON PARAGRAPH 11:
Eventually they reach their village. Pedro kindly times their entry into town when night had fallen so noone would see the sad state of Don Quixote. He leads the Don to his home where they find everyone in a tizzy because the Don has been gone for three days. The Don's friends (the village priest and the village barber) were there talking to his 40-something housekeeper. She was telling them about the Don's disappearance along with his armor and horse and blamed it on the books he read. She was suggesting all of the books on chivalry had ruined one of the finest minds in La Mancha.
Tomorrow we get to hear Don Quixote's niece bitch about the same topic.

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