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Anon reads Don Quixote (europe.pub)
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[–] 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Wasn't it a donkey? I think it was named Rocinante? Idk, I read it like 16 years ago.

Edit post-Wikipedia: it was a workhorse, not a donkey, but I nailed the name. I've wondered in the past if Geralt's horse Roach in The Witcher was a nod to Rocinante

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I for some reason thought Don Quixote rode a donkey too... Where'd that come from?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Kind of, maybe? But probably not.

    In the original, Geralt's horse's name is "Płotka" - has technically the same meaning as Roach (a small, cheap kind of fish), but the term is also sometimes used for easy, inconsequential and irrelevant things.

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