Part 1, Chapter 1
Four days deliberating the horse's name, eight on his own; the act of naming creates the knight-errant identity.
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From Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The hidalgo spends days inventing sonorous names for his nag (Rocinante) and himself (Don Quixote de la Mancha), showing how language constitutes his chivalric reality.
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