Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes, Chapter VI, Paragraphs 1-3

OF THE DIVERTING AND IMPORTANT SCRUTINY WHICH THE CURATE AND THE BARBER MADE IN THE LIBRARY OF OUR INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN

He was still sleeping; so the curate asked the niece for the keys of the room where the books, the authors of all the mischief, were, and right willingly she gave them. They all went in, the housekeeper with them, and found more than a hundred volumes of big books very well bound, and some other small ones. The moment the housekeeper saw them she turned about and ran out of the room, and came back immediately with a saucer of holy water and a sprinkler, saying, "Here, your worship, senor licentiate, sprinkle this room; don't leave any magician of the many there are in these books to bewitch us in revenge for our design of banishing them from the world."

TIM-ELVIS' OBSERVATIONS ON PARAGRAPH 1:
The next morning, the priest and the barber/doctor show up while Don Quixote is still asleep and ask the niece for the key to the library where the evil books are stored. Everyone goes into the room and see about a hundred books. The housekeeper freaks (I take it she isn't a member of a book club), runs out and grabs a saucer of holy water (which she just so happens to have in the Fridge) and tells the priest to sprinkle it around the room to exorcise the books of their evil influences.

The simplicity of the housekeeper made the licentiate laugh, and he directed the barber to give him the books one by one to see what they were about, as there might be some to be found among them that did not deserve the penalty of fire.

TIM-ELVIS' OBSERVATIONS ON PARAGRAPH 2:
The priest laughs at the simple housekeep. He tells the barber to give him the books one by one so he can see if any are worth keeping and not burning.

"No," said the niece, "there is no reason for showing mercy to any of them; they have every one of them done mischief; better fling them out of the window into the court and make a pile of them and set fire to them; or else carry them into the yard, and there a bonfire can be made without the smoke giving any annoyance." The housekeeper said the same, so eager were they both for the slaughter of those innocents, but the curate would not agree to it without first reading at any rate the titles.

TIM-ELVIS' OBSERVATIONS ON PARAGRAPH 3:
The niece and the housekeeper don't want to save any of the books. They demand that they just be thrown out the window and burned. But the priest wouldn't agree until he at least looked at the titles.

Tomorrow: Burn or don't burn? You decide.