![]() ![]() There’s a remedy for everything except death, and holding the power and the staff, I’ll do whatever I want. Besides, I can pretend that my right hand is maimed and I can have someone else sign for me. “I can sign my name,” responded Sancho, “because when I was a steward in my town, I learred to make some letters like they use to mark on bales, and they said that it was my name. I put the proverbs in bold and italics to emphasize them. I think I may at some point have to model one, if not both of them in one of my books. ![]() Here’s an excerpt from the book with one of my favorite conversations between these two lunatics. In the book there are some slow points and a few annoyingly long tangential stories, but excluding that it’s a great read. I’m reading (listening to?) the massive unabridged audiobook Don Quixote and finding it utterly hilarious, especially the proverbs of Don Quixote’s sidekick, Sancho Panza.
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