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The story has contributed to the language the word "quixotic" (foolishly impractical or idealistic) and inspired the expression "tilting at windmills" (to go after an imagined foe or a goal that cannot be reached). It has been adapted for famous artworks (by Picasso, Dali, and others), film, television, radio, opera, ballet, comic books, cartoons, and the popular stage musical Man of La Mancha.

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  • The story has contributed to the language the word "quixotic" (foolishly impractical or idealistic) and inspired the expression "tilting at windmills" (to go after an imagined foe or a goal that cannot be reached). It has been adapted for famous artworks (by Picasso, Dali, and others), film, television, radio, opera, ballet, comic books, cartoons, and the popular stage musical Man of La Mancha.
  • Described as "Palace of Super Discount" by the APIC shopping guide. The APIC guide also notes that peripheral roads get congested because there are a lot of shoppers.
  • Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, respectively, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published. It has had major influence on the literary community, as evidenced by direct references in Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers (1844) and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). In a 2002 list, Don Quixote was cited as the "best literary work ever written".
  • En esta historia inusual, Matsuda juega un funcionario de bienestar infantil que trabaja en un centro de consulta infantil, mientras que Takahashi Katsumi (50) tiene un jefe yakuza de caridad. Estos dos llevan una vida completamente diferente, pero un día, sus almas se encienden de repente. Como resultado, Matsuda comienza dando consejos extraño en las "reglas de la sociedad" y otras cosas. Mientras que sus colegas, naturalmente, ven esto como un problema, los niños gradualmente confian en él.
  • Name: Don Quixote Run Time: 4:14 Year: 1999
  • Don Quixote is a noble knight who is also a storyteller who writes books. He appeared in the episode "Dora's Knighthood Adventure".
  • File:Izanami Ball.png Impossibles/Colossals: File:FireIcon.png Fire: File:WaterIcon.png Water: File:WoodIcon.png Wood: Serket | Basilisk File:LightIcon.png Light: Yuan Shao File:DarkIcon.png Dark: Dong Zhuo File:Scroll.png Tower: File:S++.png Temple: Water (Time) | Water (Carnage) | Wood (Carnage) | Light (Carnage) | Dark (Time)
  • Don Quixote is an older gentleman, who having read too many books about chivalry, decides to become a knight. Unfortunately, he is a few generations too late. His new profession and the world he lives in are, to say the least, not a good match. However, his desire for a better world shines through and his "disconnects" with the "real world" often indicate, in a comic way, things that are not good about his world. His fight against the windmills he mistakes for giants in chapter VIII of the first part, has become an icon in western culture.
  • Don Quixote (in full, Don Quixote de la Mancha) was a 17th century Terran novel by Miguel de Cervantes, as well as the name of its main character, a mad farmer in Spain turned would-be knight-errant. Don Quixote was a favorite book of James T. Kirk, and he gave it as a gift to King Stevvin of the Shaddan. Stevvin also enjoyed the book, and wished he could have met the author that had created such a dreamer. (TOS novel: The Covenant of the Crown)
  • After reading one too many chivalric novels, Alonso Quijano, citizen of a small town in La Mancha, Spain, is inspired to take the name Don Quixote and become a knight, a new champion of honor and chivalry. Dressed in aniquated armor, he recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire and set off in search of adventure. Delusional, the knight has many misadventures, famously attacking a windmill, imagining it to be a dragon. Alonso also imagines his neighbor, Aldonza Lorenzo, to be a princess named "Dulcinea del Toboso." He decides that "Dulcinea" is the most beautiful woman in the world and his one true love, though she actually knows nothing about him.
  • Don Quixote was a fictional character created by writer Miguel de Cervantes. Originally published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, the book Don Quixote is usually presented as one long volume in modern times. In 1986, a young Spanish boy named Humberto de la Torres could not get enough of reading Cervantes' book. When the boy's family found themselves threatened by a three man biker gang consisting of thugs Black, Red and Yellow, the ghost of Don Quixote appeared out of the fallen book to aid Humberto and his parents.
  • Alonso Quijana's one great passion is books of chivalry, which he reads obsessively, and believes are all true no matter how ridiculous and fantastical their plots are. He finally goes insane from reading too many of them, and, in an era when there are no knights left, decides to become one, renaming himself Don Quixote de la Mancha. As his "squire", he takes along the rather gullible peasant, Sancho Panza. Although he is insane, Don Quixote's intentions (to wipe out evil) are noble and completely sincere. In Man of La Mancha, Don Quixote sings the hit song "The Impossible Dream."
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