But my strolling, my errantry ended here at last at the steps of this altar, as I knew. |
Sancho, as Kafka remarked, is a free man, but Don Quixote is metaphysically and psychologically bound by his dedication to knight errantry. |
All this seems true to Cervantes's aim of exposing the absurdity of knight errantry, while conveying the holy madness of his hero. |
The knight errant had heard the canon's question, and he offered to give him the information if he knew anything about errantry. |
Remember how reluctantly Cervantes says farewell to his Don Quixote, who has been on his deathbed, and who has, at the last moment, renounced his knight errantry. |
The day will never come, I hope, when we shall degenerate into the footpad, and lose our Night errantry. |