The Fulling Mills

From Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
A terrifying nocturnal pounding turns out to be mere fulling hammers, a comic deflation of heroic dread and one of the novel's great set pieces of anti-climax.
Part 1, Chapter 20

Sancho immobilizes Rocinante to prevent Quixote charging into the dark; dawn reveals the harmless industrial machinery.

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