Classics and the Western Canon discussion

I'm finished with Don Quixote and I was disappointed by the ending. I am also confused because some of you were talking about crucifixion like scenes and I never read about that in my translation. Did I misunderstand something? Not that I wanted to see DQ crucified or anything but I just am having trouble putting everything together. Are we reading the second DQ book? I will have to see if I can get it at the library if we are. If we are not then I won't worry about it. Now I am off to rate the book.

Dianna wrote: "I'm finished with Don Quixote and I was disappointed by the ending. I am also confused because some of you were talking about crucifixion like scenes and I never read about that in my translation...."

isn't the second part in your book? my book is part one and part two.
do you remember the scene when dq was maliciously strung up at the inn, left to hang with his feet barely touching rocinante, i think? that was one of the scenes some people felt was similar to the crucifixion in its description. how did you book describe that scen?

I guess I haven't read it. Is it the second part? That's why I am confused. No, I don't have the second part in my book, I guess.

Dianna wrote: "I guess I haven't read it. Is it the second part? That's why I am confused. No, I don't have the second part in my book, I guess."

Dianna: now, that is weird (that you missed that part somehow); the scene is stretched through several chapters (at least two if I remember right). It was a big issue for DQ, quite understandably: hung by his hands all night from a window... don't blame him for being pissed off (although he explained it of course with some "wicked and jealous magic" :D).

That reminded me of something, a bit OFF, so I apologize. I have my own books (in two parts/volumes), but for some reason I wanted to print out a few parts from a Hungarian library site that theoretically has the whole novel on in my translation. For some mysterious reasons they contracted some of the chapters into, say, 3-4 paragraphs... I have no clue why and why exactly those chapters (among them of course some of those that I find the most intriguing, like the wonderful analysis of the frustrating way the mass media works - around chapter 48 if I remember right). It made me mad, the fact that they do such a thing (can't stand the idea of "simplified" version of any kind of book).

OK, OFF is done, now: ON. I am very curious what happened to Dianna's copy.

Is it where the girls come to him while he is sleeping in the barn? I didn't remember that being like a crucifixion though.

Dianna wrote: "Is it where the girls come to him while he is sleeping in the barn? I didn't remember that being like a crucifixion though."

Dianna: yes, that's the part you thought you had missed.

It occurs in chapter 43. Dq was standing watch with his horse Rocinante. Maritornes and the innkeeper's daughter decided to play a trick on him.
"he was standing on Rocinante, his entire arm inside the o;pening and his wrist tied to the lock on the door, extremely uneasy and fearful that if Rocinante moved to one side or the other, he would be left hanging by his arm and so he did not dare move at all...snip(some men came to the inn and one of their horses smelled rocinante and went to her) as soon as the horse moved slightly, DQ's feet. which were close together, slipped from the saddle, and he would have landed on the ground if he had not been hanging by his arm" this caused him so much pain that he believed his hand was being cut off at the wrist or that his arm was being pulled out of its socket; he was left dangling so close to the ground that the tips of his toes brushed the earth,...snip,...he struggled all he could to stretch even farther and touch down, just as those subjected to the torture of the strappado,...
Does that help any?

Yeah, I remember now. lol But still, it didn't remind me of a crucifixion. Maybe I was half asleep when I was reading that part.