Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote

brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I for some reason thought Don Quixote rode a donkey too… Where’d that come from?

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  • brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think his “squire” had one, so maybe they get conflated XD

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    • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Sancho Panza rode the donkey, Dapple. Though Don Quixote does “ride” the donkey a few times. Rocinante is his usual mount.

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• Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Kind of, maybe? But probably not.

  In the original, Geralt’s horse’s name is “Płotka” - has technically the same meaning as Roach (a small, cheap kind of fish), but the term is also sometimes used for easy, inconsequential and irrelevant things.

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  • brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Good to know! It’d be a cool reference, but I guess it wouldn’t really fit with Geralt’s character. He’s pretty far off from Don Quixote XD

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