Don Quixote – Chapter XIX – Summary

Night. Torches. White figures.
Sancho sees ghosts.
Don Quixote sees opportunity.

Funeral procession passes quietly.
Don Quixote interrupts… loudly.

He attacks what is basically a group of priests escorting a corpse.
Explains it all as justice. Naturally.

Afterwards: a calm conversation with a very confused bachelor of arts whose biggest crime was… attending a funeral.

For me:
Fear turns shadows into ghosts.
Imagination turns funerals into battles.
And Don Quixote manages to be both wrong and convinced at the same time.

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